Bill Text: NY A10489 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Imposes a refundable deposit on wine and liquor containers; provides that unredeemed deposits thereon be deposited into the environmental protection fund and the state park infrastructure fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-02 - referred to environmental conservation [A10489 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A10489-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10489
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 2, 2010
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
         establishing  a  refundable deposit on wine and liquor containers; and
         to amend the environmental conservation law and the state finance law,
         in relation to the deposit of unredeemed  deposits  thereon  into  the
         environmental protection fund and the state park infrastructure fund
         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,  beer,  other  malt
    5  beverages  [and],  a wine product as defined in subdivision thirty-six-a
    6  of section three of the alcoholic beverage control law, WINE AS  DEFINED
    7  IN  SUBDIVISION  THIRTY-SIX  OF  SECTION THREE OF THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE
    8  CONTROL LAW, AND LIQUOR AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION  NINETEEN  OF  SECTION
    9  THREE  OF THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAW. "Malt beverages" means any
   10  beverage obtained by the alcoholic fermentation or infusion or decoction
   11  of barley, malt, hops, or other wholesome  grain  or  cereal  and  water
   12  including,  but  not limited to ale, stout or malt liquor. "Water" means
   13  any beverage identified through the use of letters, words or symbols  on
   14  its  product  label  as a type of water, including any flavored water or
   15  nutritionally enhanced water, provided, however, that "water"  does  not
   16  include  any beverage identified as a type of water to which a sugar has
   17  been added.
   18    S 2. Subdivision 5 of section 27-1012 of the  environmental  conserva-
   19  tion  law, as added by section 8 of part SS of chapter 59 of the laws of
   20  2009, is amended to read as follows:
   21    5. All monies collected or received by the department of taxation  and
   22  finance  pursuant  to this title shall be deposited to the credit of the
   23  comptroller with such responsible banks, banking houses or trust  compa-
   24  nies  as  may  be  designated by the comptroller. Such deposits shall be
   25  kept separate and apart from all other moneys in the possession  of  the
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  comptroller.  The  comptroller  shall require adequate security from all
    2  such depositories. Of the total revenue collected, the comptroller shall
    3  retain the amount determined by the commissioner of taxation and finance
    4  to  be  necessary  for refunds out of which the comptroller must pay any
    5  refunds to which a deposit initiator may be  entitled.  After  reserving
    6  the  amount  to  pay  refunds, the comptroller must, by the tenth day of
    7  each month, pay into the state treasury to the  credit  of  the  general
    8  fund  the  revenue deposited under this subdivision during the preceding
    9  calendar month and remaining to the comptroller's credit on the last day
   10  of that preceding month; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE  COMPTROLLER  SHALL
   11  DEPOSIT  ALL  REVENUE  DERIVED  FROM WINE AND LIQUOR CONTAINERS IN EQUAL
   12  PORTIONS IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION  FUND  ESTABLISHED  BY  SECTION
   13  NINETY-TWO-S  OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW AND THE STATE PARK INFRASTRUCTURE
   14  FUND ESTABLISHED BY SECTION NINETY-SEVEN-MM OF THE STATE FINANCE LAW, AS
   15  ADDED BY CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE OF THE LAWS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED NINETY-TWO.
   16    S 3. Subdivision 3 of section  92-s  of  the  state  finance  law,  as
   17  amended  by  section  2  of part T of chapter 59 of the laws of 2009, is
   18  amended to read as follows:
   19    3. Such fund shall consist of the amount of revenue  collected  within
   20  the  state  from the amount of revenue, interest and penalties deposited
   21  pursuant to section fourteen hundred twenty-one  of  the  tax  law,  the
   22  amount  of fees and penalties received from easements or leases pursuant
   23  to subdivision fourteen of section seventy-five of the public lands  law
   24  and  the  money  received  as annual service charges pursuant to section
   25  four hundred four-l of the vehicle and traffic law, ALL MONEYS  REQUIRED
   26  TO  BE DEPOSITED THEREIN PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FIVE OF SECTION 27-1012
   27  OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW, all moneys required to be  depos-
   28  ited  therein  from the contingency reserve fund pursuant to section two
   29  hundred ninety-four of chapter  fifty-seven  of  the  laws  of  nineteen
   30  hundred  ninety-three,  all  moneys required to be deposited pursuant to
   31  section thirteen of chapter six hundred ten  of  the  laws  of  nineteen
   32  hundred  ninety-three,  repayments  of  loans  made  pursuant to section
   33  54-0511 of the environmental conservation law, all moneys to be deposit-
   34  ed from the Northville settlement pursuant to section one hundred  twen-
   35  ty-four  of  chapter  three hundred nine of the laws of nineteen hundred
   36  ninety-six, provided however, that such moneys shall only  be  used  for
   37  the  cost  of  the  purchase  of  private  lands in the core area of the
   38  central Suffolk pine barrens pursuant to a consent order with the North-
   39  ville industries signed on October thirteenth, nineteen hundred  ninety-
   40  four  and  the  related  resource  restoration and replacement plan, the
   41  amount of penalties required to be deposited therein by section  71-2724
   42  of  the environmental conservation law, all moneys required to be depos-
   43  ited pursuant to article thirty-three of the environmental  conservation
   44  law, all fees collected pursuant to subdivision eight of section 70-0117
   45  of  the  environmental  conservation  law, [as added by a chapter of the
   46  laws of two thousand nine,] all moneys collected pursuant to title thir-
   47  ty-three of article fifteen of the environmental conservation  law[,  as
   48  added  by  a  chapter  of  the  laws of two thousand nine] and all other
   49  moneys credited or transferred thereto from any  other  fund  or  source
   50  pursuant  to law. All such revenue shall be initially deposited into the
   51  environmental protection fund, for application as provided  in  subdivi-
   52  sion five of this section.
   53    S 4. Subdivision 2 of section 97-mm of the state finance law, as added
   54  by chapter 55 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
   55    2.  Such  fund  shall  consist  of: (a) revenues received by the state
   56  pursuant to section 13.15 and  subdivisions  two,  two-a  and  two-b  of
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    1  section  3.09  of  the  parks,  recreation and historic preservation law
    2  except those revenues required for the support of  the  patron  services
    3  account  in the miscellaneous special revenue fund pursuant to appropri-
    4  ation  by the legislature; (b) all revenues received by the state pursu-
    5  ant to section 13.16 of the parks, recreation and historic  preservation
    6  law; (c) all revenues received by the state pursuant to contracts, leas-
    7  es,  licenses  and  easements entered into by or with the consent of the
    8  commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation pursuant  to
    9  section  13.06  of  the parks, recreation and historic preservation law;
   10  (D) ALL MONEYS REQUIRED TO BE DEPOSITED THEREIN PURSUANT TO  SUBDIVISION
   11  FIVE OF SECTION 27-1012 OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW; and [(d)]
   12  (E)  all other moneys credited or appropriated for transfer thereto from
   13  any other fund or source according to law.
   14    S 5. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
   15  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
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