NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4410

Senate Bill S4410

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to beverage container handling fees paid to dealers or operators of redemption centers

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation Committee

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2025-S4410 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:: Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §27-1007, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:: S6869

2025-S4410 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the handling fee paid by deposit initiators to dealers or operators of a redemption center from 3.5 cents to 4.5 cents.

2025-S4410 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S4410

SPONSOR: MAY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
beverage container handling fees paid to dealers or operators of redemp-
tion centers; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expi-
ration thereof

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of this bill is to temporarily increase the handling fee
given to beverage container redemption centers from 3.5 cents per
container to 4.5 cents per container.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

The bill amends subdivision 6 of section 27-1007 of the environmental
conservation law to increase the handling fee that redemption centers
receive from deposit initiators (distributors) for beverage containers
which are subject to a deposit. The fee increases the handling fee from

3.5 cents per beverage container to 4.5 cents. The provisions are
subject to a sunset date of December 31, 2026.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The bill's increase in handling fee from 3.5 cents per container to 4.5
cents is intended to provide the first increase in this fee in decades
and prevent further closure by other redemption centers that are strug-
gling to stay in business. There are reports of closures of up to 100
redemptions centers across the state due to financial hardship. Addi-
tionally, and in advance of a future expansion of the types of beverage
containers which may be returned for deposit, this measure will provide
a critical lifeline to redemption centers and help them meet labor and
infrastructure needs.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2023-2024 - S.6968-B (May)

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the state

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately and expires as of December 31, 2027.

2025-S4410 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4410
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  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
   beverage  container  handling  fees  paid  to  dealers or operators of
   redemption centers; and providing for the repeal  of  such  provisions
   upon expiration thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 6  of  section  27-1007  of  the  environmental
 conservation  law, as added by section 4 of part SS of chapter 59 of the
 laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   6. In addition to the refund value of a beverage container  as  estab-
 lished  by  section 27-1005 of this title, a deposit initiator shall pay
 to any dealer or operator of a  redemption  center  a  handling  fee  of
 [three and one-half] FOUR AND ONE-HALF cents for each beverage container
 accepted  by  the  deposit  initiator  from such dealer or operator of a
 redemption center.  Payment of the handling fee shall be as compensation
 for collecting, sorting and packaging of empty beverage  containers  for
 transport  back to the deposit initiator or its designee. Payment of the
 handling fee may not be conditioned on the  purchase  of  any  goods  or
 services,  nor  may such payment be made out of the refund value account
 established pursuant to section 27-1012 of this title. A distributor who
 does not initiate deposits on a type of beverage container is considered
 a dealer only for the purpose of receiving a handling fee from a deposit
 initiator.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
 deemed repealed December 31, 2027.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08664-01-5

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