{"id":221690,"date":"2026-05-06T09:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221690\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:11:14","slug":"senate-democrats-block-bill-to-repeal-new-yorks-electric-school-bus-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/221690\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats block bill to repeal New York&#8217;s electric school bus mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 Senate Democrats blocked a bill Tuesday that would have repealed New York\u2019s electric school bus mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was introduced by Republican State Sen. George Borrello. It would have replaced the mandate with a pilot program to evaluate performance across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Under the current mandate, New York schools must stop buying new diesel buses next year. The state requires a full transition to electric buses by 2035.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/electric-buses\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">electric buses<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/sen-george-borrello\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. George Borrello<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 Senate Democrats blocked a bill Tuesday that would have repealed New York\u2019s electric school bus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[53479,9,11,10,87316],"class_list":["post-221690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-electric-buses","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-sen-george-borrello"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}