Bill Text: NY S06463 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes an implementation and effectiveness task force to study compliance with electronic equipment recycling and reuse requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-12 - referred to environmental conservation [S06463 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06463-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6463
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 23, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- 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
          establishing  an  implementation and effectiveness task force to study
          compliance with electronic equipment recycling and reuse requirements
          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 27-2622 to read as follows:
     3  § 27-2622. Implementation and effectiveness task force.
     4    1. Not less than ninety days after the effective date of this section,
     5  the commissioner shall convene a task force to study the  implementation
     6  and  effectiveness  of  this  title.  The  task force shall study issues
     7  including but not limited to:
     8    (a) the amount of electronic waste recycled in the state and propensi-
     9  ty of consumer electronic waste items to be properly recycled or  reused
    10  as required under this title;
    11    (b) the compliance with this title of both consumers and manufacturers
    12  in recycling and reusing consumer-generated waste;
    13    (c)  the  ways  in  which municipalities have adapted waste service to
    14  allow for electronic waste  recycling  in  furtherance  of  this  title,
    15  including  whether  municipalities  have  included  or excluded curbside
    16  electronic waste collection  as  a  result  of  the  enactment  of  this
    17  section; and
    18    (d)  whether  additional  legislation  is  needed to more fully ensure
    19  compliance and effective implementation of this title.
    20    2. The task force shall complete a report no later than one year after
    21  the effective date of this section announcing its findings and recommen-
    22  dations pursuant to subdivision one of this section and the commissioner
    23  shall transmit such report to the temporary  president  of  the  senate,
    24  speaker  of the assembly, minority leader of the senate, minority leader
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11843-01-7
        S. 6463                             2
     1  of the assembly, chairs of the senate and assembly committees  on  envi-
     2  ronmental conservation, and shall publish such report on its website.
     3    3.  The  commissioner may reconvene the task force provided under this
     4  section as he or she deems fit on a date no less than one year after the
     5  report required in subdivision two of this section is completed. If such
     6  task force shall be called by the commissioner, the provisions of subdi-
     7  visions one and two of this section shall apply except that  the  report
     8  shall be completed and transmitted no later than one year after the date
     9  the commissioner reconvenes such task force.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.