Bill Text: NY S05619 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of environmental conservation to study alternative municipal uses for recycled glass; requires the department to submit a report containing its findings along with legislative proposals as it deems necessary to implement its recommendations.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-21 - referred to environmental conservation [S05619 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05619-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5619
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to direct the department of environmental conservation  to  study
          alternative municipal uses for recycled glass
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The department of environmental conservation, in  consulta-
     2  tion  with  the  department  of transportation, shall conduct a study on
     3  alternative municipal uses for recycled glass including, but not limited
     4  to, the use of crushed glass in  asphalt,  concrete,  drainage,  roadway
     5  subgrade, and for the purposes of beach nourishment.
     6    § 2. The department of environmental conservation shall issue a report
     7  containing  the  findings of the study to the temporary president of the
     8  senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of  the  senate  environ-
     9  mental  conservation  committee,  and the chair of the assembly environ-
    10  mental conservation committee no later than one year after the effective
    11  date of this act and shall submit  with  this  report  such  legislative
    12  proposals  as  it deems necessary to implement its recommendations. Such
    13  report shall also be published on such department's website.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11138-01-9