Bill Text: NY S05331 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Expands the food donation and food scraps recycling program by scaling down the annual average tonnage requirement every two years until 2028; removes exceptions regarding recycler capacity.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-25 - AMENDED ON THIRD READING 5331A [S05331 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S05331-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5331--A Cal. No. 538 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 2, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, ADDABBO, BROUK, COONEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, MAY -- 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 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to expanding the food donation and food scraps recycling program 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 27-2201 of the environmental 2 conservation law, as added by section 2 of part SS of chapter 58 of the 3 laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows: 4 1. "Designated food scraps generator" means a person who generates at 5 a single location an annual average of two tons per week or more of food 6 scraps between January first, two thousand twenty-three and December 7 thirty-first, two thousand twenty-five, an annual average of one ton per 8 week or more of food scraps between January first, two thousand twenty- 9 six and December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-seven, and an annual 10 average of one-half ton per week or more of food scraps beginning Janu- 11 ary first, two thousand twenty-eight and thereafter based on a methodol- 12 ogy established by the department pursuant to regulations, including, 13 supermarkets, large food service businesses, higher educational insti- 14 tutions, hotels, food processors, correctional facilities, and sports or 15 entertainment venues. For a location with multiple independent food 16 service businesses, such as a mall or college campus, the entity respon- 17 sible for contracting for solid waste hauling services is responsible 18 for managing food scraps from the independent businesses. 19 § 2. The opening paragraph of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 and para- 20 graph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 27-2203 of the environmental EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09935-05-4S. 5331--A 2 1 conservation law, as added by section 2 of part SS of chapter 58 of the 2 laws of 2019, are amended to read as follows: 3 except as provided in paragraph (c) of this subdivision, each desig- 4 nated food scraps generator that is within [twenty-five] fifty miles of 5 an organics recycler, to the extent that the recycler has capacity to 6 accept all of such generator's food scraps based on the department's 7 yearly estimate of an organic recyclers' capacity pursuant to section 8 27-2211 of this title, shall: 9 (a) the designated food scraps generator does not meet the [two tons] 10 tonnage per week threshold pursuant to subdivision one of section 11 27-2201 of this title; 12 § 3. The department of environmental conservation is authorized and 13 directed to complete the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule 14 or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act no later than 15 180 days after the date on which this act shall have become a law. 16 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 17 section two of this act shall take effect January 1, 2026.
