Bill Text: NY S06195 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 6195 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Permits the use of post-consumer recycled high density polyethylene for beverage container packaging.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-26 - referred to environmental conservation [S06195 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06195-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6195--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
          -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Commit-
          tee on Rules -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          permitting the use of recyclable beverage container packaging
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  27-1011 of the environmental
     2  conservation law, as amended by section 7 of part SS of  chapter  59  of
     3  the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
     4    3. No deposit initiator, distributor or dealer shall sell or offer for
     5  sale  in  this  state  beverage  containers connected to each other by a
     6  separate holding device constructed of plastic [which  does  not  decom-
     7  pose],  unless such device decomposes by photodegradation or biodegrada-
     8  tion or such device is recyclable, made of at least ninety percent post-
     9  consumer recycled high density polyethylene, and does not have any holes
    10  greater than one and three-quarters inches in diameter.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11680-02-7