Bill Text: NY S08520 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the handling fee paid to dealers or operators of a redemption center for the redemption of empty beverage containers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S08520 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08520-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8520

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 8, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 the
          handling fee paid to a dealer or operator of a redemption  center  for
          the redemption of empty beverage containers

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6  of  section  27-1007  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law, as added by section 4 of part SS of chapter 59 of the
     3  laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
     4    6. In addition to the refund value of a beverage container  as  estab-
     5  lished  by  section 27-1005 of this title, a deposit initiator shall pay
     6  to any dealer or operator of a redemption center a handling fee of three
     7  and one-half cents for each beverage container accepted by  the  deposit
     8  initiator from such dealer or operator of a redemption center. Beginning
     9  April  first,  two  thousand  twenty-four,  the handling fee will be six
    10  cents. Payment of the handling fee shall be as compensation for collect-
    11  ing, sorting and packaging of empty beverage  containers  for  transport
    12  back  to  the deposit initiator or its designee. Payment of the handling
    13  fee may not be conditioned on the purchase of any goods or services, nor
    14  may such payment be made out of the  refund  value  account  established
    15  pursuant  to  section  27-1012 of this title. A distributor who does not
    16  initiate deposits on a type of beverage container is considered a dealer
    17  only for the purpose of receiving a handling fee from a  deposit  initi-
    18  ator.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13958-01-4