Bill Text: NY A10263 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the establishment of electronics and hazardous waste recycling programs in towns within Nassau and Suffolk counties for one year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-13 - referred to local governments [A10263 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10263-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10263

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 13, 2022
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments

        AN  ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring the
          establishment of electronics and hazardous waste recycling programs in
          towns within Nassau and Suffolk counties; and providing for the repeal
          of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
     2  section 120-dd to read as follows:
     3    § 120-dd. Electronics and hazardous waste recycling pilot programs. 1.
     4  Each municipality within Nassau and Suffolk counties shall adopt a local
     5  law or ordinance establishing an electronics and hazardous waste recycl-
     6  ing pilot program within such municipality  within  one  hundred  eighty
     7  days  of  the  effective date of this section. Such pilot programs shall
     8  run for no less than one year. Such pilot programs  shall  include,  but
     9  not be limited to:
    10    (a) The recycling of electronics and hazardous waste; and
    11    (b)  A  location  for  residents to drop off electronics and hazardous
    12  waste for recycling which is open to residents.
    13    2. Within two years of the effective date of this section, each  muni-
    14  cipality  which  established  a  pilot  program under this section shall
    15  submit a report to the governor, the temporary president of the  senate,
    16  the  speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate, and the
    17  minority leader of the assembly which shall include, but not be  limited
    18  to,  the  effectiveness  of  the  pilot  program,  how much material was
    19  collected and if it was treated,  disposed  of,  or  recycled,  and  the
    20  number  of  participants  in the pilot program compared to the number of
    21  residents within the municipality.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
    23  deemed repealed three years after it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14661-01-2