Bills Pending New York Senate Environmental Conservation Committee

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NYS06105Intro
25%
Establishes extended producer responsibility for household appliances and refrigerants; provides that no later than December 31, 2025, producers shall submit a plan to the department of environmental conservation for the establishment of a collection...
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2024-06-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS00925Intro
25%
Enacts the "sustainable affordable housing and sprawl prevention act"; exempts or limits environmental review under SEQR for the construction of certain new residential units to avoid creating unnecessary housing sprawl; limits certain rights to acti...
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2024-05-31
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS04947Intro
25%
Expands the New York bottle bill by including more types of eligible beverages and additional penalties.
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2024-05-31
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS01857Intro
25%
Enacts the monarch preservation plan requiring the department of environmental conservation to take feasible actions to conserve monarch butterflies and the unique habitats they depend upon for successful migration.
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2024-05-31
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS09799Intro
25%
Exempts inland lakes which are navigable waterways and have an area of 150 acres or more from wetlands designations, not including great lakes.
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2024-05-30
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS09779Intro
25%
Limits liability of producers, representative organizations and retailers for antitrust, restraint of trade, or unfair trade practices arising from actions undertaken in accordance with a carpet collection program.
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2024-05-30
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS07582Intro
25%
Enacts the "pollinator promotion act" to authorize the commissioner of environmental conservation to promote the health and viability of pollinators in the state and to provide state assistance payments to municipalities to adopt and implement pollin...
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2024-05-29
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS01400Intro
25%
Provides that it is deceptive to misrepresent that a product or package is recyclable unless it can be collected, separated or otherwise recovered from the waste stream through an established recycling program for reuse or use in manufacturing or ass...
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2024-05-28
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS07977Intro
25%
Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, or distribution of polystyrene foam docks, buoys and floating structures in the state.
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2024-05-28
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS09682Intro
25%
Establishes a moratorium on the adoption and/or implementation of certain local laws or ordinances, or certain rules or regulations, by a city with a population of one million or more, related to achieving certain reductions in greenhouse gas emissio...
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2024-05-20
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYA02411Engross
50%
Relates to the classification of historical lands and buildings located within the forest preserve.
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2024-05-20
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS09585Intro
25%
Directs the department of environmental conservation to establish a composting symbol to denote composting-acceptable materials.
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2024-05-16
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS09616Intro
25%
Establishes an independent state monitorship to oversee containment, remediation, excavation and cleanup of the groundwater plume associated with the Northrop Grumman Bethpage Facility and Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant sites in the hamlet of...
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2024-05-16
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS09446Intro
25%
Relates to environmental quality reviews of housing development projects that propose to build twenty or more units; provides that municipalities shall not be prohibited from performing their own environmental reviews.
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2024-05-15
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS09438Intro
25%
Allows the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in tracking big game that are dead, wounded or injured.
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2024-05-15
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS01981Intro
25%
Establishes clean energy goals of reducing the annual total of vehicle miles traveled within the state by 20% by the year 2050; requires state and local highway projects to comply with reductions to vehicle miles traveled targets.
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2024-05-14
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS07428Intro
25%
Increases the handling fee paid by a deposit initiator to a dealer or operator of a redemption center from three and one half cents to five cents per container; decreases the amount of quarterly payments a deposit initiator must pay the commissioner ...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS09228Intro
25%
Establishes an economy-wide cap and invest program to support greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the state by setting a maximum allowable amount of greenhouse gas emissions by covered entities and regulating the sale or auction of greenhouse gas ...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS00237Intro
25%
Relates to returnable bottles; adds noncarbonated soft drinks, certain noncarbonated fruit or vegetable juices, coffee and tea beverages, carbonated fruit beverages and cider to the definition of "beverage"; provides that beginning April 1, 2026, the...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS09143Intro
25%
Prohibits the manufacture, sale, and use of cookware containing polytetrafluoroethylene.
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2024-04-30
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS09120Intro
25%
Relates to adopting the Appalachian states radioactive waste compact; assures interstate cooperation for the proper management and disposal of low-level radioactive wastes to reduce the volume of low-level radioactive waste.
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2024-04-29
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS09060Intro
25%
Directs the department of environmental conservation to develop a regional plan for Long Island glass recycling in coordination with Alfred university and Long Island municipalities.
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2024-04-15
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS08974Intro
25%
Prohibits banning the burning of wood, coal, natural gas, propane, or other fuels for the purposes of cooking or otherwise preparing food.
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2024-04-04
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS08461Intro
25%
Establishes the sporting range good neighbor act requiring skeet field tracts at shooting ranges to be certain dimensions; prohibits them from including wetlands or open water sources; directs the department of environmental conservation to promulgat...
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2024-04-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS08886Intro
25%
Updates the definition of the term "reusable bag", as used in the environmental conservation law, to specify minimum material and durability standards.
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2024-03-25
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS08863Intro
25%
Prohibits the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to search for, scout, locate, hunt, detect, or otherwise aid in the taking of a wild animal to which the hunting season applies.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS08719Intro
25%
Clarifies certain provisions related to prohibiting plastic carryout bags.
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2024-03-05
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS01178Intro
25%
Prohibits the idling of any passenger vehicle, with certain exceptions, for more than 3 consecutive minutes; establishes the first violation is a warning and subsequent violations of such section are traffic infractions punishable by a fine of $150.
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2024-03-05
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS08737Intro
25%
Allows a person who is at least ten years of age to hunt small game, fowl, deer or bear during applicable seasons without obtaining a hunting license or hunter's education course certification and to possess or control a firearm if the person is with...
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2024-03-05
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS07927Intro
25%
Protects wolves by requiring animals which could be wolves be submitted for a DNA test and, when determined to be wolves, requiring the department take action to protect wolves from being taken in the future.
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2024-03-01
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS07767Intro
25%
Provides for the issuance of certificates of registration for entities that manufacture or assemble zero-emissions vehicles and have no franchised motor vehicle dealers in New York if the sale of zero-emission vehicles in the state fail to meet certa...
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2024-02-26
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS08520Intro
25%
Increases the handling fee paid to dealers or operators of a redemption center for the redemption of empty beverage containers.
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2024-02-08
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS05330Intro
25%
Prohibits idling by heavy duty vehicles.
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2024-02-01
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS08159Intro
25%
Relates to protecting wildlife and maintaining safety; necessitates written notification before a nuisance wildlife control operator undertakes any control measures.
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2024-01-10
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS06298Intro
25%
Enacts an advanced clean fleets law to reduce vehicle emissions for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.
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2024-01-08
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS07970Intro
25%
Prohibits horizontal drilling and high-volume hydraulic fracturing.
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2024-01-04
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS07940Intro
25%
Bans paper receipts for certain purchases; requires businesses to provide proof of purchase electronically, unless a proof of purchase is otherwise required by state or federal law.
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2024-01-04
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS07961Intro
25%
Directs the commissioner of the department of environmental conservation to promulgate rules and regulations establishing targets for the sales of zero emissions medium and heavy duty vehicles in the state.
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2024-01-04
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS07947Intro
25%
Relates to the use of body-worn cameras by police officers; requires the department of environmental conservation and the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation establish a program to provide and require officers to wear body-worn came...
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2024-01-04
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS00583Intro
25%
Regulates outdoor night lighting to preserve and enhance the state's dark sky.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS04238Intro
25%
Permits instruction in hunting, fishing and outdoor education in high school physical education courses.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS05994Intro
25%
Relates to requiring notice to neighboring landowners within one thousand feet of intention to develop in wetland areas; requires a public hearing on a wetland application.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS03287Intro
25%
Relates to declaring the goal of the state of New York to source reduce, reuse, recycle, or compost no less than eighty-five percent of the solid waste generated by the year 2033.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS03224Intro
25%
Relates to requiring state and municipal agencies to purchase compostable single use tableware; requires state and municipal agencies purchasing single use tableware to purchase single use tableware made from material that is compostable unless there...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS06030Intro
25%
Relates to the state greenhouse gas emission accounting system; aligns the state accounting system with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) accounting system.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS03186Intro
25%
Requires that restaurants only provide single-use plastic straws to customers when explicitly requested by the customer; prohibits single-use plastic stirrers.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS02612Intro
25%
Relates to the transfer of lifetime hunting licenses.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS03288Intro
25%
Restricts the use of total release fogging pesticides unless the purchaser is licensed as a certified commercial pesticide applicator, certified residential pesticide applicator, or certified commercial pesticide technician in the state of New York o...
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS05181Intro
25%
Prohibits the discharge of any radiological agent into the waters of the state.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
NYS05813Intro
25%
Declares the waters of the state to be public trust resources.
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2024-01-03
To Senate Environmental Conservation Committee
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