Assembly Bill A4059

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires all public buildings and all parks, recreation and historic preservation sites have bins for recyclable and compostable materials

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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-A4059 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Public Buildings Law
Laws Affected:
Add §148, Pub Bldg L; amd §3.09, Pks & Rec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10318
2023-2024: A5568

2025-A4059 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires all public buildings and all parks, recreation and historic preservation sites have bins for recyclable and compostable materials.

2025-A4059 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4059
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the public buildings law and the parks, recreation and
   historic preservation law, in relation to requiring all public  build-
   ings  and  all  parks, recreation and historic preservation sites have
   bins for recyclable and compostable materials
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public buildings law is amended by adding a new section
 148 to read as follows:
   §  148.  BINS  FOR  RECYCLABLE  AND COMPOSTABLE MATERIALS.   A COVERED
 PUBLIC  BUILDING  SHALL  ESTABLISH  AND  IMPLEMENT  A  PROGRAM  FOR  THE
 COLLECTION OF RECYCLABLE AND COMPOSTABLE MATERIALS THAT ARE DISCARDED IN
 SUCH  BUILDING.    SUCH  RECYCLABLE  MATERIALS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE
 LIMITED TO, METAL, PLASTIC, GLASS AND PAPER. SUCH COMPOSTABLE  MATERIALS
 SHALL  INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, FOOD SCRAPS, TREE AND BRUSH TRIM-
 MINGS, LEAVES, AND OTHER COMPOSTABLE MATERIALS. IN  EACH  SUCH  BUILDING
 THERE SHALL BE INSTALLED BINS FOR THE COLLECTION OF RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
 AND  BINS  FOR THE COLLECTION OF COMPOSTABLE MATERIALS.  SUCH BINS SHALL
 BE ALONGSIDE ANY UNDESIGNATED WASTE BINS AND ANY BINS  FOR  NON-RECYCLA-
 BLE,  NON-COMPOSTABLE WASTE.   A BIN DESIGNATED FOR RECYCLABLE MATERIALS
 SHALL BE REGULARLY COLLECTED AND THE RECYCLABLE MATERIALS  WITHIN  RECY-
 CLED.    A  BIN  DESIGNATED FOR COMPOSTABLE MATERIALS SHALL BE REGULARLY
 COLLECTED AND THE CONTENTS WITHIN COMPOSTED.
   § 2. Subdivision 23 of section  3.09  of  the  parks,  recreation  and
 historic  preservation law, as added by chapter 312 of the laws of 2017,
 is amended to read as follows:
   23. Establish and implement a program for the collection of recyclable
 AND COMPOSTABLE materials that  are  discarded  in  state  parks,  state
 historic  sites and state recreational facilities. Such recyclable mate-
 rials shall include, but not be limited to, metal,  plastic,  glass  and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04742-01-5

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