Bill Text: NY S00139 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: 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 2032.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-24 - SUBSTITUTED BY A4117 [S00139 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00139-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         139--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
          -- recommitted to  the  Committee  on  Environmental  Conservation  in
          accordance  with  Senate  Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation 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 2032

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

     1    Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
     2  new section 27-0102 to read as follows:
     3  § 27-0102. Declaration of policy.
     4    The legislature hereby declares that it shall be a goal of  the  state
     5  of  New  York  to source reduce, reuse, recycle, or compost no less than
     6  eighty-five percent of the solid waste generated by the year  two  thou-
     7  sand thirty-two, and annually thereafter.
     8    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 3-0301 of the environmental conservation
     9  law is amended by adding a new paragraph oo to read as follows:
    10    oo.  Advise  and  cooperate with planning units, as defined in section
    11  27-0107 of this chapter, to achieve the goal of section 27-0102 of  this
    12  chapter.
    13    §  3.  No  later than January 1, 2025, the department of environmental
    14  conservation shall submit a report to the governor and  the  legislature
    15  outlining  strategies  to  achieve  the state's goal pursuant to section
    16  27-0102 of the environmental conservation law.
    17    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02874-03-2