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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S06931 Summary: BILL NO S06931A &nbsp SAME AS SAME AS A11032

&nbsp SPONSOR HARCKHAM &nbsp COSPNSR MAY &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Add §27-0111, En Con L &nbsp Directs state agencies to adopt a waste diversion plan.

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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

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2025-2026 Regular Sessions

IN SENATE

March 27, 2025 ___________

Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Procurement and Contracts -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law; in relation to directing state agencies to adopt a waste diversion plan

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 27-0111 to read as follows: 3 § 27-0111. State entities waste reduction and diversion. 4 1. Definitions. For purposes of this section: 5 (a) "Affected entities" shall mean any agency or department over which 6 the governor has executive authority, including all offices and divi- 7 sions thereof, as well as all public authorities for which the governor 8 appoints the chair, the chief executive, or the majority of board 9 members, including all offices and divisions thereof, except for the 10 port authority of New York and New Jersey. This shall include the state 11 university of New York and the city university of New York. 12 (b) "Council" shall mean the GreenNY Council, created pursuant to 13 executive order twenty-two on September twentieth, two thousand twenty- 14 two. 15 2. (a) The council shall be comprised of the commissioner of environ- 16 mental conservation; the director of the division of the budget; the 17 commissioner of general services; the commissioner of health; the 18 commissioner of economic development; the commissioner of transporta- 19 tion; the commissioner of parks, recreation, and historic preservation; 20 the president of the environmental facilities corporation; the president 21 of the New York state energy research and development authority; the 22 president of the New York power authority; the president of the dormito-

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11202-03-5

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1 ry authority of the state of New York; and the chief executive officer 2 of the metropolitan transportation authority. 3 (b) Members of the council may designate a staff member, and an alter- 4 nate, to represent them and participate on the council on their behalf. 5 (c) The council shall be led and co-chaired by the commissioner of 6 general services, the commissioner of environmental conservation, the 7 director of the division of the budget, the president of the New York 8 state energy research and development authority, and the president of 9 the New York power authority, or their designees. The day-to-day work of 10 the council shall be performed by executive and program staff of these 11 leadership agencies and authorities, in consultation with any other 12 agency or authority staff that participate in council work. 13 3. (a) All affected entities, in consultation with the department and 14 the council, shall create a waste diversion plan and file such plan with 15 the council, that outlines how they will achieve a decrease in waste 16 disposal of ten percent every five years from a baseline of fiscal year 17 two thousand eighteen-two thousand nineteen, until reaching a goal of an 18 overall seventy-five percent decrease. 19 (b) Waste data reported for these goals shall be broken out into the 20 following categories: 21 (i) recycled materials; 22 (ii) compostable materials and other organics; 23 (iii) material sent to landfills, including construction and demoli- 24 tion waste; and 25 (iv) special waste, including hazardous waste. 26 (c) The waste diversion plan shall incorporate at least the following 27 elements: 28 (i) a schedule for conducting routine waste audits of facilities and 29 how the findings from the waste audit will be utilized in advancing 30 waste reduction; 31 (ii) a plan for diverting organic waste from landfills to meet the 32 diversion goals; 33 (iii) identifying all instances where single-use plastics are used and 34 creating a plan to eliminate their use in all circumstances where doing 35 so will not endanger employee or public health and safety; and 36 (iv) consideration of whether the affected entity should be transi- 37 tioning to dual-stream recycling that source separates recyclable items 38 into subcategories of mixed paper and commingled containers (plastic, 39 glass, and metal), at all facilities where it is practicable and where 40 dual-stream material recovery facilities are available, cost-effective 41 and efficient. 42 (d) The council, in consultation with the department, shall reassess 43 the waste diversion goals of this subdivision at least every five years, 44 and if the goals are updated by the council, the council shall require 45 updated waste diversion plans to be submitted by affected entities. 46 4. All waste diversion plans prepared pursuant to this section shall 47 be posted on the department's website. 48 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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