§ 16. Supplies furnished by secretary and clerk. a. The secretary of
the senate, or such other officers or employees of the senate as the
temporary president of the senate shall designate and the clerk of the
assembly, or such other officers or employees of the assembly as the
speaker of the assembly shall designate, respectively, shall purchase
all stationery, office supplies and equipment necessary for the official
use of the members, officers and employees, and shall prepay the postage
on all official mail deposited in the post office of the respective
houses for transmission through the mails by members of the senate and
assembly, respectively.

b. All products purchased shall be recycled products, which meet
contract specifications, unless the only available product does not
contain recycled content, and provided that the cost of the recycled
product does not exceed a cost premium of ten percent above the cost of
a comparable product that is not a recycled product or, if at least
fifty percent of the secondary materials utilized in the manufacture of
that product are generated from the waste stream in New York state, the
cost of the recycled product does not exceed a cost premium of fifteen
percent above the cost of a comparable product that is not a recycled
product. For the purpose of this section and until July first, nineteen
hundred ninety-six, "recycled product" shall mean any product which has
been manufactured from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision
one of section two hundred sixty-one of the economic development law,
and meets secondary material content requirements adopted by the office
of general services under subdivision one of section one hundred
seventy-seven of the state finance law for products available to the
legislature under state contract or, if no such contract for such
product is available, any product which meets the secondary material
content requirements adopted by the secretary of the senate, or such
other officers or employees of the senate as the temporary president of
the senate shall designate, and the clerk of the assembly, or such other
officers or employees as the speaker of the assembly shall designate,
respectively, with respect to a specific commodity procurement by such
entity. On or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled
product" shall mean, for the purposes of this section, any product which
has been manufactured from secondary materials, as defined in
subdivision one of section two hundred sixty-one of the economic
development law, and which meets the requirements of subdivision two of
section 27-0717 of the environmental conservation law and regulations
promulgated pursuant thereto. Whenever purchasing or causing the
purchase of printing on recycled paper pursuant to this section, the
secretary of the senate, or such other officers or employees of the
senate as the temporary president of the senate shall designate, and the
clerk of the assembly, or such other officers or employees as the
speaker of the assembly shall designate, respectively, shall require the
printed material to contain the official state recycling emblem
established pursuant to subdivision two of section 27-0717 of the
environmental conservation law and regulations promulgated pursuant
thereto if such paper has been approved by the department of
environmental conservation as satisfying the requirements of such
statute and regulations, or, if such paper has not been so approved,
require the printed material to include a printed statement which
indicates the percentages of pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled
material content of such paper.