NY State Senate Bill 2017-S6463

Senate Bill S6463

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Establishes an implementation and effectiveness task force to study compliance with electronic equipment recycling and reuse requirements

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jun 12, 2018	referred to environmental conservation delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.1719 committee discharged and committed to rules
Jan 03, 2018	referred to environmental conservation
May 23, 2017	referred to environmental conservation

Votes

- Jun 12, 2018 - Floor Vote
  S6463
  
  61
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  2
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 12, 2018
      
      aye (61)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Alcantara
      
      Amedore
      
      Avella
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Bonacic
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Hamilton
      
      Hannon
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jacobs
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Mayer
      
      Montgomery
      
      Murphy
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Peralta
      
      Persaud
      
      Phillips
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
      
      excused (2)
      
      Croci
      
      Sepúlveda
  Jun 12, 2018 - Rules Committee Vote
  S6463
  
  24
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  1
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 12, 2018
      
      aye (24)
      
      Bonacic
      
      Breslin
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Flanagan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Griffo
      
      Hannon
      
      Kennedy
      
      Klein
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Marcellino
      
      Montgomery
      
      Parker
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Savino
      
      Seward
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Valesky
      
      aye wr (1)
      
      Little

2017-S6463 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:: Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:: Add §27-2622, En Con L

2017-S6463 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes an implementation and effectiveness task force to study compliance with electronic equipment recycling and reuse requirements.

2017-S6463 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S6463

 TITLE OF BILL :

An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
establishing an implementation and effectiveness task force to study
compliance with electronic equipment recycling and reuse requirements

 PURPOSE :

Establishes a taskforce on the effectiveness and implementation of the
Electronic Waste Recycling and Reuse Program

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Establishes a task force convened by the Commissioner of the
Department of Environmental Conservation to study the implementation
and effectiveness of Title 26 of Article 27 of this chapter, the
Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Law.

 EXISTING LAW :

New

 JUSTIFICATION :

In 2010 the state enacted a comprehensive program to provide for the
recycling and reuse of electronic waste. This program was intended to
ensure that consumers had access through manufacturers and
municipalities to ways that would get rid of old electronics through
waste and reuse processes. Despite the noble intent of the 2010
chapter, it is unclear if this law has effectively promoted recycling
of electronic waste. Some have reported that manufacturers refuse to
accept electronic waste or charge exorbitant fees as part of such a
transaction. In other cases, municipalities have resisted implementing
curb-side electronic recycling programs based on a misguided reading
of this statute.

This legislation will establish a task force to help the Legislature
understand the effects of the electronic waste recycling law, and
determine how the Legislature can improve its functionality and ensure
a zero-waste environment. The goal of this law is clearly to eliminate
all electronic waste, and there is still more work to do to rid our
neighborhoods of the dangerous and unseemly dumping of old electronic
waste that should have been recycled.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

New

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

Minor administrative costs to the Department.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
Immediately.

2017-S6463 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6463
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   establishing  an  implementation and effectiveness task force to study
   compliance with electronic equipment recycling and reuse requirements

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
 new section 27-2622 to read as follows:
 § 27-2622. IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFECTIVENESS TASK FORCE.
   1. NOT LESS THAN NINETY DAYS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION,
 THE COMMISSIONER SHALL CONVENE A TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE  IMPLEMENTATION
 AND  EFFECTIVENESS  OF  THIS  TITLE.  THE  TASK FORCE SHALL STUDY ISSUES
 INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
   (A) THE AMOUNT OF ELECTRONIC WASTE RECYCLED IN THE STATE AND PROPENSI-
 TY OF CONSUMER ELECTRONIC WASTE ITEMS TO BE PROPERLY RECYCLED OR  REUSED
 AS REQUIRED UNDER THIS TITLE;
   (B) THE COMPLIANCE WITH THIS TITLE OF BOTH CONSUMERS AND MANUFACTURERS
 IN RECYCLING AND REUSING CONSUMER-GENERATED WASTE;
   (C)  THE  WAYS  IN  WHICH MUNICIPALITIES HAVE ADAPTED WASTE SERVICE TO
 ALLOW FOR ELECTRONIC WASTE  RECYCLING  IN  FURTHERANCE  OF  THIS  TITLE,
 INCLUDING  WHETHER  MUNICIPALITIES  HAVE  INCLUDED  OR EXCLUDED CURBSIDE
 ELECTRONIC WASTE COLLECTION  AS  A  RESULT  OF  THE  ENACTMENT  OF  THIS
 SECTION; AND
   (D)  WHETHER  ADDITIONAL  LEGISLATION  IS  NEEDED TO MORE FULLY ENSURE
 COMPLIANCE AND EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS TITLE.
   2. THE TASK FORCE SHALL COMPLETE A REPORT NO LATER THAN ONE YEAR AFTER
 THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION ANNOUNCING ITS FINDINGS AND RECOMMEN-
 DATIONS PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION AND THE COMMISSIONER
 SHALL TRANSMIT SUCH REPORT TO THE TEMPORARY  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  SENATE,
 SPEAKER  OF THE ASSEMBLY, MINORITY LEADER OF THE SENATE, MINORITY LEADER
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD11843-01-7

 S. 6463                             2
 
 OF THE ASSEMBLY, CHAIRS OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY COMMITTEES  ON  ENVI-
 RONMENTAL CONSERVATION, AND SHALL PUBLISH SUCH REPORT ON ITS WEBSITE.
   3.  THE  COMMISSIONER MAY RECONVENE THE TASK FORCE PROVIDED UNDER THIS
 SECTION AS HE OR SHE DEEMS FIT ON A DATE NO LESS THAN ONE YEAR AFTER THE
 REPORT REQUIRED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION IS COMPLETED. IF SUCH
 TASK FORCE SHALL BE CALLED BY THE COMMISSIONER, THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDI-
 VISIONS ONE AND TWO OF THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY EXCEPT THAT  THE  REPORT
 SHALL BE COMPLETED AND TRANSMITTED NO LATER THAN ONE YEAR AFTER THE DATE
 THE COMMISSIONER RECONVENES SUCH TASK FORCE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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