Requires any waste hauler providing waste removal services to provide to customers certain estimated costs and invoices; includes penalties for initial and subsequent violations; requires moneys collected from penalties and fines to be deposited into the environmental protection fund.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6316--C
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 10, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on
Environmental Conservation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general business law and the state finance law, in
relation to solid waste removal invoices and directing penalties and
fines related to such invoices to be deposited into the environmental
protection fund
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 392-l to read as follows:
3 § 392-l. Solid waste removal invoices. 1. For the purposes of this
4 section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
5 (a) "Estimated full cost" shall mean a good faith projection of the
6 expected full cost.
7 (b) "Full cost" shall mean the total price, including any service
8 charges and additional fees, of waste removal services.
9 (c) "Waste removal services" shall mean the proper removal and
10 disposal of solid waste by a waste hauler for a customer on a one-time
11 basis.
12 (d) "Waste hauler" shall mean any person registered or permitted by
13 the department of environmental conservation to transport solid waste.
14 2. Any waste hauler that provides waste removal services shall:
15 (a) Inform a customer of the estimated full cost waste removal
16 services may cost, presented in a range from lowest to highest amount,
17 including the cost per unit of weight, prior to the provision of waste
18 removal services; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (b) Provide such customer with an invoice of the full cost of such
2 waste removal services immediately after the completion of such waste
3 removal services; and
4 (c) Provide such customer with an itemized receipt following payment
5 for such waste removal services.
6 3. Each invoice required pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision two
7 of this section shall contain the following notice:
8 "THIS INVOICE IS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 392-l OF THE
9 GENERAL BUSINESS LAW."
10 4. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be
11 liable for a civil penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars for the
12 first violation and not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars for
13 subsequent violations.
14 5. All civil penalties and fines collected for any violation of this
15 section shall be deposited to the credit of the environmental protection
16 fund established pursuant to section ninety-two-s of the state finance
17 law.
18 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 92-s of the state finance law, as
19 amended by section 3 of part YY of chapter 58 of the laws of 2025, is
20 amended to read as follows:
21 3. Such fund shall consist of the amount of revenue collected within
22 the state from the amount of revenue, interest and penalties deposited
23 pursuant to section fourteen hundred twenty-one of the tax law, the
24 amount of fees and penalties received from easements or leases pursuant
25 to subdivision fourteen of section seventy-five of the public lands law
26 and the money received as annual service charges pursuant to section
27 four hundred four-n of the vehicle and traffic law, all moneys required
28 to be deposited therein from the contingency reserve fund pursuant to
29 section two hundred ninety-four of chapter fifty-seven of the laws of
30 nineteen hundred ninety-three, all moneys required to be deposited
31 pursuant to section thirteen of chapter six hundred ten of the laws of
32 nineteen hundred ninety-three, repayments of loans made pursuant to
33 section 54-0511 of the environmental conservation law, all moneys to be
34 deposited from the Northville settlement pursuant to section one hundred
35 twenty-four of chapter three hundred nine of the laws of nineteen
36 hundred ninety-six, provided however, that such moneys shall only be
37 used for the cost of the purchase of private lands in the core area of
38 the central Suffolk pine barrens pursuant to a consent order with the
39 Northville industries signed on October thirteenth, nineteen hundred
40 ninety-four and the related resource restoration and replacement plan,
41 the amount of penalties required to be deposited therein by section
42 71-2724 of the environmental conservation law, all moneys required to be
43 deposited pursuant to article thirty-three of the environmental conser-
44 vation law, all fees collected pursuant to subdivision eight of section
45 70-0117 of the environmental conservation law, all moneys collected
46 pursuant to title thirty-three of article fifteen of the environmental
47 conservation law, beginning with the fiscal year commencing on April
48 first, two thousand thirteen, nineteen million dollars, and all fiscal
49 years thereafter, twenty-three million dollars plus all funds received
50 by the state each fiscal year in excess of the greater of the amount
51 received from April first, two thousand twelve through March thirty-
52 first, two thousand thirteen or one hundred twenty-two million two
53 hundred thousand dollars, from the payments collected pursuant to subdi-
54 vision four of section 27-1012 of the environmental conservation law and
55 all funds collected pursuant to section 27-1015 of the environmental
56 conservation law, all moneys required to be deposited pursuant to
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1 sections 27-2805 and 27-2807 of the environmental conservation law, all
2 moneys collected pursuant to section 71-2730 of the environmental
3 conservation law, all moneys required to be deposited pursuant to
4 section seven hundred sixty-five of the general business law, all moneys
5 required to be deposited pursuant to section 27-3205 of the environ-
6 mental conservation law, all moneys collected pursuant to section three
7 hundred ninety-two-l of the general business law, and all other moneys
8 credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant
9 to law. All such revenue shall be initially deposited into the environ-
10 mental protection fund, for application as provided in subdivision five
11 of this section.
12 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
