Bill Text: NY S01421 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires SUNY and CUNY campuses to hire energy management, materials management, and sustainability education and engagement employees at each SUNY and CUNY campus in numbers proportionate to campus size.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S01421 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01421-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1421

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 9, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. LIU, JACKSON, MAY -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to requiring SUNY and
          CUNY campuses to hire energy  management,  materials  management,  and
          sustainability education and engagement employees

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 22 to read as follows:
     3    22. The state university trustees shall adopt a policy requiring  that
     4  each college and university of the state university of New York, exclud-
     5  ing  community  colleges, shall employ staff as follows in the following
     6  functional areas:
     7    a. for campuses with less than four thousand students and  the  empire
     8  state  college,  one full-time energy management employee, one full-time
     9  materials (waste) management employee, and one full-time  sustainability
    10  education and engagement employee;
    11    b.  for  campuses with between four thousand students and eleven thou-
    12  sand nine hundred ninety-nine students, one full-time and one  half-time
    13  energy  management  employee,  one full-time and one half-time materials
    14  (waste)  management  employee,  and  one  full-time  and  one  half-time
    15  sustainability education and engagement employee;
    16    c.  for campuses with between twelve thousand students and twenty-four
    17  thousand nine hundred ninety-nine students, two full-time energy manage-
    18  ment employees, two full-time materials  (waste)  management  employees,
    19  and two full-time sustainability education and engagement employees; and
    20    d.  for campuses with twenty-five thousand or more students, two full-
    21  time and one half-time energy management employees,  two  full-time  and
    22  one  half-time materials (waste) management employees, and two full-time
    23  and one half-time sustainability education and engagement employees.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03763-01-5
        S. 1421                             2

     1    § 2. Section 6206 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 24 to read as follows:
     3    24.  The  board  of  trustees shall adopt a policy requiring that each
     4  institution of the city university of New York  shall  employ  staff  as
     5  follows in the following functional areas:
     6    a.  for  campuses with less than four thousand students, one full-time
     7  energy management employee, one full-time materials  (waste)  management
     8  employee,  and  one  full-time  sustainability  education and engagement
     9  employee;
    10    b. for campuses with between four thousand students and  eleven  thou-
    11  sand  nine hundred ninety-nine students, one full-time energy management
    12  employee and one full-time employee assigned at least fifty  percent  to
    13  energy  management,  one full-time materials (waste) management employee
    14  and one full-time employee assigned at least fifty percent to  materials
    15  (waste)  management,  and  one  full-time  sustainability  education and
    16  engagement employee and one full-time employee assigned at  least  fifty
    17  percent to sustainability education and engagement;
    18    c.  for campuses with between twelve thousand students and twenty-four
    19  thousand nine hundred ninety-nine students, two full-time energy manage-
    20  ment employees, two full-time materials  (waste)  management  employees,
    21  and two full-time sustainability education and engagement employees; and
    22    d.  for campuses with twenty-five thousand or more students, two full-
    23  time energy management employees and one full-time employee assigned  at
    24  least  fifty  percent  to  energy  management,  two  full-time materials
    25  (waste) management employees and  one  full-time  employee  assigned  at
    26  least  fifty  percent to materials (waste) management, and two full-time
    27  sustainability education and  engagement  employees  and  one  full-time
    28  employee assigned at least fifty percent to sustainability education and
    29  engagement.
    30    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.