Bill Text: NY A07066 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires state and municipal governmental entities have a recycling program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A07066 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07066-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          7066
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 4, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          requiring  state  and municipal governmental entities have a recycling
          program
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Article 27 of the environmental conservation law is amended
     2  by adding a new title 31 to read as follows:
     3                                  TITLE 31
     4                    STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT RECYCLING
     5  Section 27-3101. Definitions.
     6          27-3103. Required state and municipal recycling programs.
     7          27-3105. Powers of municipalities.
     8  § 27-3101. Definitions.
     9    For  the  purposes  of  this title, the following terms shall have the
    10  following meanings:
    11    1. "Agency" means any state department, agency, board, public  benefit
    12  corporation, public authority, or commission.
    13    2.  "Local education agency" means a school district, board of cooper-
    14  ative educational services, community college, agricultural and  techni-
    15  cal  college,  state  university of New York college of technology and a
    16  center for advanced technology designated pursuant to section thirty-one
    17  hundred two-a of the public authorities  law,  and  other  postsecondary
    18  providers  of career education as set forth annually by the commissioner
    19  as eligible recipients under the federal  vocational  education  act  of
    20  nineteen hundred eighty-four.
    21    3.  "Municipality"  means  any  town, village, city, county, district,
    22  special improvement district or other improvement  district,  including,
    23  but  not limited to, special districts created pursuant to article elev-
    24  en, twelve, twelve-A or thirteen of the town law, library districts, and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  other districts created by law or any designated agency  or  subdivision
     2  thereof  including, but not limited to, any courts, programs and facili-
     3  ties.
     4  § 27-3103. Required state and municipal recycling programs.
     5    1.  All  state agencies, local education agencies, municipalities, and
     6  other public entities within the state shall create a recycling  program
     7  which shall include, but not be limited to:
     8    (a) increase the amount of waste recycled;
     9    (b) minimize its generation of waste;
    10    (c) reduce the need for disposal of its generated waste; and
    11    (d)  provide  collection  and educational resources, including regular
    12  periodical guidance, training, updates, signage,  and  flyers,  for  its
    13  workforce  and  the  public  for  the purposes of teaching and retaining
    14  effective procedures for sorting materials for recycling.
    15    2. All state agencies, local education agencies,  municipalities,  and
    16  other public entities within the state shall provide to the commissioner
    17  information  on  its  practices,  including amounts of waste managed and
    18  recycled by various methods such as those implemented pursuant to subdi-
    19  vision one of this section, entities or resources utilized for  reducing
    20  and  managing  such  materials,  or  financing mechanisms and incentives
    21  utilized.
    22    3. The provisions of this section shall  not  apply  to  contracts  in
    23  effect  on  the  effective date of this section; provided, however, that
    24  the provisions of this section shall apply to all renewals or extensions
    25  of such contracts entered into on or after the effective  date  of  this
    26  section.
    27    4.  The  department  shall  promote  actions  to  take pursuant to the
    28  requirements of subdivision one of this section, and  for  all  entities
    29  and  the public to take in efforts to manage waste and establish a recy-
    30  cling program in a similar manner.
    31    5. The department may report information to promote  improved  manage-
    32  ment  waste  and  recycling programs, including information on practices
    33  and resources  providing  assistance  for  reducing  such  materials  or
    34  promoting such programs, facilities accepting such materials, or financ-
    35  ing  mechanisms  and incentives available for such practices and facili-
    36  ties.
    37  § 27-3105. Powers of municipalities.
    38    All state agencies,  local  education  agencies,  municipalities,  and
    39  other  public  entities  within  the state shall promulgate regulations,
    40  ordinances, or laws to take any and all reasonable actions necessary  to
    41  implement and enforce this title. This title does not limit the authori-
    42  ty  of  a  local  governmental  agency  to  adopt, implement, or enforce
    43  requirements on management of waste management and  recycling  that  are
    44  more stringent or comprehensive that the requirements of this title.
    45    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the first of the month following
    46  the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.