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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           759
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          expanding  the food donation and food scraps recycling program; and to
          amend a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the environmental conser-
          vation law relating to expanding the food  donation  and  food  scraps
          recycling  program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5331-A
          and A. 5906-A, in relation to the effectiveness thereof
 
          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  27-2201 of the environmental
     2  conservation law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of  2024  amending
     3  the  environmental  conservation  law  relating  to  expanding  the food
     4  donation and food scraps recycling program, as proposed  in  legislative
     5  bills numbers S. 5331-A and A. 5906-A, is amended to read as follows:
     6    1.  "Designated food scraps generator" means a person who generates at
     7  a single location an annual average of two tons per week or more of food
     8  scraps between January first, two  thousand  twenty-three  and  December
     9  thirty-first,  two  thousand [twenty-five] twenty-six, an annual average
    10  of one ton per week or more of food scraps between  January  first,  two
    11  thousand  [twenty-six] twenty-seven and December thirty-first, two thou-
    12  sand [twenty-seven] twenty-eight, and an annual average of one-half  ton
    13  per  week  or  more of food scraps beginning January first, two thousand
    14  [twenty-eight] twenty-nine and thereafter based on a methodology  estab-
    15  lished  by  the department pursuant to regulations, including, supermar-
    16  kets, large food service businesses,  higher  educational  institutions,
    17  hotels,  food  processors, correctional facilities, and sports or enter-
    18  tainment venues. For a location with multiple independent  food  service
    19  businesses, such as a mall or college campus, the entity responsible for
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02835-01-5
        S. 759                              2
 
     1  contracting for solid waste hauling services is responsible for managing
     2  food scraps from the independent businesses.
     3    §  2. Section 4 of a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the environ-
     4  mental conservation law relating to expanding the food donation and food
     5  scraps recycling program, as proposed in legislative  bills  numbers  S.
     6  5331-A and A. 5906-A, is amended to read as follows:
     7    §  4.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
     8  section two of this act shall take effect January 1, [2026] 2027.
     9    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however section
    10  one of this act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    11  manner  as  a  chapter  of  the  laws of 2024 amending the environmental
    12  conservation law relating to expanding the food donation and food scraps
    13  recycling program, as proposed in legislative bills  numbers  S.  5331-A
    14  and A. 5906-A, takes effect.