Bill Text: NY A05563 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation to prohibit the use or sale of single use plastic straws and beverage stirrers in state parks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [A05563 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05563-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5563

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 16, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development

        AN  ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in
          relation to requiring the office of  parks,  recreation  and  historic
          preservation  to prohibit use or the sale of single use plastic straws
          and beverage stirrers in state parks

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

     1    Section  1. Section 3.09 of the parks, recreation and historic preser-
     2  vation law is amended by adding a new subdivision 24 to read as follows:
     3    24. Prohibit the use of sale of single use plastic straws and beverage
     4  stirrers in state parks.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     6  it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06706-01-3