Bill Text: NY S05553 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides for the payment of compensation by the department of environmental conservation to electronic waste collection sites, consolidation facilities and recycling facilities for costs not paid by a manufacturer or manufacturers of electronic equipment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-26 - PRINT NUMBER 5553A [S05553 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S05553-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5553--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- 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 and the state finance law, in relation to manufacturer liability for the cost of collection, handling, and recycling and reuse of electronic waste, and compen- sation by the state to electronic waste collection sites, consol- idation facilities and recycling facilities for those costs not paid by a manufacturer The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 8 of section 27-2605 2 of the environmental conservation law is designated paragraph (a) and a 3 new paragraph (b) is added to read as follows: 4 (b) Any electronic waste collection site, electronic waste consol- 5 idation facility, electronic waste recycling facility or county which 6 collects, handles, and/or recycles or reuses any item of covered elec- 7 tronic equipment may submit an application to the commissioner, in such 8 form and containing such information as the commissioner may require, 9 for state assistance payments toward the cost of collecting, handling, 10 and/or recycling or reuse of covered electronic equipment incurred with- 11 in the state when such covered electronic equipment was not collected, 12 handled and/or recycled or reused pursuant to section 27-2603 of this 13 title. The commissioner shall review such application and shall approve 14 such application for the actual cost of collecting, handling, and/or 15 recycling or reuse of covered electronic equipment incurred within the 16 state. Compensation pursuant to this paragraph shall be paid within 17 thirty days of receipt of an application therefor submitted to the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10993-02-8S. 5553--A 2 1 department, in such form and having such content as shall be determined 2 by the commissioner in rules and regulations. 3 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 6 of section 92-s of the state 4 finance law, as amended by section 3 of part U of chapter 58 of the laws 5 of 2016, is amended to read as follows: 6 (b) Moneys from the solid waste account shall be available, pursuant 7 to appropriation and upon certificate of approval of availability by the 8 director of the budget, for any non-hazardous municipal landfill closure 9 project; municipal waste reduction or recycling project, as defined in 10 article fifty-four of the environmental conservation law; for the 11 purposes of section two hundred sixty-one and section two hundred 12 sixty-four of the economic development law; any project for the develop- 13 ment, updating or revision of local solid waste management plans pursu- 14 ant to sections 27-0107 and 27-0109 of the environmental conservation 15 law; environmental justice projects and grants [and]; for the develop- 16 ment of the pesticide sales and use data base pursuant to title twelve 17 of article thirty-three of the environmental conservation law; and for 18 the payment of the costs of the collection, handling, and/or recycling 19 and reuse of electronic waste pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision 20 eight of section 27-2605 of the environmental conservation law. 21 § 3. Subdivision 8 of section 92-s of the state finance law, as added 22 by chapter 610 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows: 23 8. All payments of moneys from the fund shall be made on the audit and 24 warrant of the comptroller; provided, however, that the comptroller 25 shall, during each quarter, allocate moneys from the solid waste account 26 to the department of environmental conservation for the payment of 27 claims for compensation anticipated to be submitted, pursuant to para- 28 graph (b) of subdivision eight of section 27-2605 of the environmental 29 conservation law, during such quarter. 30 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 31 ing the date on which it shall have become a law, and shall apply to 32 electronic waste collected, handled, and/or recycled and reused on or 33 after January 1, 2018; provided, however, that effective immediately, 34 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces- 35 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 36 authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such 37 effective date.
