Bill Text: NY S07763 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the responsibility of the department of environmental conservation to conduct a study on glass collection, processing and recycling; requires a report to be provided on or before 12/31/2023.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-26 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8720 [S07763 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07763-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7763

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2021 relating to directing  the
          department  of environmental conservation to study alternative munici-
          pal uses for recycled glass, as proposed in legislative bills  numbers
          A.    6333  and  S.  4094,  in relation to conducting a study on glass
          collection, processing and recycling

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

     1    Section  1. Sections 1 and 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2021 relating
     2  to directing the  department  of  environmental  conservation  to  study
     3  alternative  municipal  uses for recycled glass, as proposed in legisla-
     4  tive bills numbers A. 6333 and S. 4094, are amended to read as follows:
     5    Section 1. The department of environmental conservation[, in consulta-
     6  tion with the department of transportation,] shall conduct  a  study  on
     7  [alternative  municipal uses for recycled glass] glass collection, proc-
     8  essing, and recycling including, but not limited to, [the use of crushed
     9  glass in asphalt, concrete, drainage,  roadway  subgrade,  and  for  the
    10  purposes  of  beach  nourishment]  potential  markets  for  glass, waste
    11  reduction, and product substitutions.
    12    § 2. The department of environmental conservation shall issue a report
    13  containing the findings of the study [to the temporary president of  the
    14  senate,  the  speaker  of the assembly, the chair of the senate environ-
    15  mental conservation committee, and the chair of  the  assembly  environ-
    16  mental conservation committee no later than one year after the effective
    17  date  of  this  act  and  shall submit with this report such legislative
    18  proposals as it deems necessary to implement its  recommendations.  Such
    19  report  shall  also  be  published  on  such department's website] on or
    20  before December 31, 2023. The report shall be posted on the department's
    21  website.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    23  manner  as  a  chapter  of  the  laws  of 2021 relating to directing the
    24  department of environmental conservation to study alternative  municipal
    25  uses  for  recycled  glass,  as proposed in legislative bills numbers A.
    26  6333 and S. 4094, takes effect.

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