STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5796 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 1, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring that all printed political campaign mailing pieces, containing or made of recyclable material, include a message about recycling the printed materials The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new section 3-111 2 to read as follows: 3 § 3-111. Recycling of campaign and political literature. All poli- 4 tical literature in New York state, whether hand-billed or mailed, 5 containing or made of recyclable material, shall have affixed to it, the 6 recycling logo signified by three chasing arrows in a triangular config- 7 uration, and the following printed message: "This material is recycla- 8 ble. Please properly recycle after use." 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00552-01-7