Bill Text: NY S01492 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Removes the exemption for restaurants, taverns or similar food service establishments from the New York state bag waste reduction act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-10 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S01492 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01492-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1492

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  FAHY  --  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 plas-
          tic carryout bags provided by restaurants

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  27-2801 of the environmental
     2  conservation law, as added by section 2 of part H of chapter 58  of  the
     3  laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1.  "Exempt  bag"  means  a  bag:  (a)  used solely to contain or wrap
     5  uncooked meat, fish, or poultry; (b) bags used by a customer  solely  to
     6  package  bulk  items  such  as fruits, vegetables, grains, or candy; (c)
     7  bags used solely to contain food sliced or prepared to order;  (d)  bags
     8  used  solely  to  contain  a newspaper for delivery to a subscriber; (e)
     9  bags sold in bulk to a consumer at the point of sale;  (f)  trash  bags;
    10  (g)  food  storage bags; (h) garment bags; (i) bags prepackaged for sale
    11  to a customer; or (j) [plastic carryout bags provided by  a  restaurant,
    12  tavern  or  similar  food service establishment, as defined in the state
    13  sanitary code, to carryout or deliver food; or (k)] bags provided  by  a
    14  pharmacy to carry prescription drugs.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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