Bill Text: NY A03249 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the establishment of a composting program at the state university of New York, the city university of New York and institutions subject to the jurisdiction of SUNY or CUNY.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-02 - print number 3249a [A03249 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03249-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3249--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. EPSTEIN, RAGA, SEAWRIGHT, CUNNINGHAM, DICKENS,
          CRUZ, GUNTHER, ZINERMAN, GIBBS, LEVENBERG,  KELLES,  BURDICK  --  read
          once  and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted
          to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly  Rule
          3,  sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing  compost-
          ing  programs  at  state university of New York and city university of
          New York campuses

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 22 to read as follows:
     3    22.  The state university trustees shall adopt a policy requiring that
     4  each institution of the state university of New  York  collaborate  with
     5  students,  faculty and staff to encourage campuses to establish compost-
     6  ing programs.  Compostable waste may include, but shall not  be  limited
     7  to,  food  scraps,  plant  trimmings,  food  soiled paper, and certified
     8  compostable products.  In establishing such a policy, the trustees shall
     9  consider the following:
    10    a. providing information and signage related to the proper methods for
    11  separating compostable waste;
    12    b. the  availability  of  services  for  collecting  and  transporting
    13  compostable waste;
    14    c.   an  evaluation  of  the  effectiveness  of  campuses'  composting
    15  programs; and
    16    d. benchmarks for assessing progress.
    17    § 2. Section 6206 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    18  subdivision 23 to read as follows:
    19    23.  The  board  of  trustees shall adopt a policy requiring that each
    20  institution  of  the  city  university  of  New  York  collaborate  with

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  students,  faculty and staff to encourage campuses to establish compost-
     2  ing programs.  Compostable waste may include, but shall not  be  limited
     3  to,  food  scraps,  plant  trimmings, food soiled paper,   and certified
     4  compostable products.  In establishing such a policy, the trustees shall
     5  consider the following:
     6    a.    providing  information and signage related to the proper methods
     7  for separating compostable waste;
     8    b. the  availability  of  services  for  collecting  and  transporting
     9  compostable waste;
    10    c.   an  evaluation  of  the  effectiveness  of  campuses'  composting
    11  programs; and
    12    d. benchmarks for assessing progress.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    14  have become a law.