Bill Text: NY S01507 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds cider to the list of returnable beverage containers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S01507 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01507-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1507

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2021
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        Introduced by Sens. MAY, BIAGGI, BRESLIN, GAUGHRAN, KRUEGER, LIU, MYRIE,
          THOMAS  --  read  twice  and  ordered  printed, and when printed to be
          committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          adding cider to the list of returnable beverage containers

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1  of  section  27-1003  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law,  as  amended by section 2 of part SS of chapter 59 of
     3  the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1. "Beverage" means carbonated soft drinks, water, cider, beer,  other
     5  malt beverages and a wine product as defined in subdivision thirty-six-a
     6  of section three of the alcoholic beverage control law. "Malt beverages"
     7  means any beverage obtained by the alcoholic fermentation or infusion or
     8  decoction  of barley, malt, hops, or other wholesome grain or cereal and
     9  water including, but not limited to ale, stout or malt  liquor.  "Water"
    10  means  any  beverage  identified  through  the  use of letters, words or
    11  symbols on its product label as a type of water, including any  flavored
    12  water  or  nutritionally enhanced water, provided, however, that "water"
    13  does not include any beverage identified as a type of water to  which  a
    14  sugar  has been added. "Cider" shall have the same meaning as defined in
    15  section three of the alcoholic beverage control law.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    17  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
    18  ly,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation
    19  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
    20  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04464-01-1