Assembly Bill A661

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Enacts the state and local government food waste prevention and diversion act

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Current Bill Status - Stricken


  • 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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2023-A661 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 27 Title 34 §§27-3401 - 27-3405, amd §27-0107, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A4788
2021-2022: A5747

2023-A661 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the state and local government food waste prevention and diversion act; requires facilities generating excess food waste to take measures to minimize such waste.

2023-A661 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    661
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC, OTIS, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   prevention and diversion of food waste
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the  "state  and  local  government  food waste prevention and diversion
 act".
   § 2. Article 27 of the environmental conservation law  is  amended  by
 adding a new title 34 to read as follows:
                                 TITLE 34
      STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT FOOD WASTE PREVENTION AND DIVERSION
                                    ACT
 SECTION 27-3401. DEFINITIONS.
         27-3403. REQUIRED  STATE  AND  MUNICIPAL  FOOD  SERVICE ORGANICS
                    WASTE MANAGEMENT.
         27-3405. POWERS OF MUNICIPALITIES.
 § 27-3401. DEFINITIONS.
   FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS TITLE, THE FOLLOWING  TERMS  SHALL  HAVE  THE
 FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   1.  "AGENCY" MEANS ANY STATE DEPARTMENT, AGENCY, BOARD, PUBLIC BENEFIT
 CORPORATION, PUBLIC AUTHORITY, OR COMMISSION.
   2. "COMPOSTABLE" MEANS ALL THE MATERIALS IN  THE  PRODUCT  OR  PACKAGE
 WILL  (A)  UNDERGO DEGRADATION BY BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES DURING COMPOSTING
 TO YIELD CARBON DIOXIDE, WATER, INORGANIC COMPOUNDS, AND  BIOMASS  AT  A
 RATE  CONSISTENT WITH OTHER KNOWN COMPOSTABLE MATERIALS AND (B) LEAVE NO
 VISIBLE, DISTINGUISHABLE OR TOXIC RESIDUE, INCLUDING NO  ADVERSE  IMPACT
 ON  THE  ABILITY  OF  COMPOSTS TO SUPPORT PLANT GROWTH ONCE THE FINISHED
 COMPOST IS PLACED IN SOIL.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02582-01-3
 A. 661                              2
              

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