Assembly Bill A1679

Signed By Governor
2025-2026 Legislative Session

Extends provisions of law relating to expanding the food donation and food scraps recycling program

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Current Bill Status Via S759 - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A1679 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S759
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §27-2201, En Con L; amd §4, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.5331-A & A.5906-A)

2025-A1679 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Extends provisions of law relating to expanding the food donation and food scraps recycling program; amends the effectiveness relating thereto.

2025-A1679 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1679
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SHIMSKY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 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:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  27-2201 of the environmental
 conservation law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of  2024  amending
 the  environmental  conservation  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, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  "Designated food scraps generator" means a person who generates at
 a single location an annual average of two tons per week or more of food
 scraps between January first, two  thousand  twenty-three  and  December
 thirty-first,  two  thousand [twenty-five] TWENTY-SIX, an annual average
 of one ton per week or more of food scraps between  January  first,  two
 thousand  [twenty-six] TWENTY-SEVEN and December thirty-first, two thou-
 sand [twenty-seven] TWENTY-EIGHT, and an annual average of one-half  ton
 per  week  or  more of food scraps beginning January first, two thousand
 [twenty-eight] TWENTY-NINE and thereafter based on a methodology  estab-
 lished  by  the department pursuant to regulations, including, supermar-
 kets, large food service businesses,  higher  educational  institutions,
 hotels,  food  processors, correctional facilities, and sports or enter-
 tainment venues. For a location with multiple independent  food  service
 businesses, such as a mall or college campus, the entity responsible for
 contracting for solid waste hauling services is responsible for managing
 food scraps from the independent businesses.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02835-01-5

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