Bill Text: NY S03287 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 2033.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S03287 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03287-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3287

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. THOMAS, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and  when  printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Environmental
          Conservation

        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 2033

          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-three, 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, 2026, 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.
                                                                   LBD08203-01-3