Bill Text: NY A09044 | 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 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-05 - referred to environmental conservation [A09044 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09044-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9044

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 5, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred 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