Bill Text: NY A03576 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Removes the exemption for restaurants, taverns or similar food service establishments from the New York state bag waste reduction act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A03576 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03576-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3576

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. FAHY, SIMON, STECK, STIRPE, L. ROSENTHAL, THIELE
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental  Conserva-
          tion

        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to plas-
          tic carryout bags provided by restaurants

          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  27-2801  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law,  as added by section 2 of part H of chapter 58 of the
     3  laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1. "Exempt bag" means a bag:  (a)  used  solely  to  contain  or  wrap
     5  uncooked  meat,  fish, or poultry; (b) bags used by a customer solely to
     6  package bulk items such as fruits, vegetables,  grains,  or  candy;  (c)
     7  bags  used  solely to contain food sliced or prepared to order; (d) bags
     8  used solely to contain a newspaper for delivery  to  a  subscriber;  (e)
     9  bags  sold  in  bulk to a consumer at the point of sale; (f) trash bags;
    10  (g) food storage bags; (h) garment bags; (i) bags prepackaged  for  sale
    11  to  a  customer; or (j) [plastic carryout bags provided by a restaurant,
    12  tavern or similar food service establishment, as defined  in  the  state
    13  sanitary  code,  to carryout or deliver food; or (k)] bags provided by a
    14  pharmacy to carry prescription drugs.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03460-01-3