Senate Bill S36

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Enacts the "New York state healthy and green procurement act"

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  • 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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2017-S36 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§160 & 161, add §164-a, St Fin L; amd §261, Ec Dev L; amd §3-0311, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S2663
2013-2014: S875
2015-2016: S3625
2019-2020: S1108
2021-2022: S1731
2023-2024: S2438

2017-S36 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "New York state healthy and green procurement act".

2017-S36 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S36 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    36
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. HOYLMAN, AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, the economic development law  and
   the  environmental conservation law, in relation to the state procure-
   ment process and to healthy and green procurement
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New York
 state healthy and green procurement act".
   § 2. Legislative findings  and  declaration.  The  legislature  hereby
 finds and declares that:
   (a)  As  New York moves into the twenty-first century the state should
 serve as a role model for practices that  will  create  and  maintain  a
 healthy  environment  and  vibrant  economy.  The  manufacture,  use and
 disposal of commodities and technologies, the construction of  buildings
 and the provision of services utilizing toxic chemicals may have adverse
 impacts  on  public health and the environment. Persistent, bioaccumula-
 tive toxic chemicals, such as mercury, lead, dioxin and poly  brominated
 diphenyl  ethers,  are toxic in small amounts, remain in the environment
 for long periods of time, and build to dangerous levels in humans,  fish
 and  other  animals;  and  this  group of pollutants known as persistent
 bioaccumulative toxic chemicals (PBT) pose risks to  public  health  and
 the environment through their ability to cause cancer, birth defects and
 endocrine  disruption.  Such  chemicals  have polluted hundreds of water
 bodies, fish and waterfowl in the state. These  adverse  impacts  impose
 costs  on  the  state and, ultimately, society as a whole in the form of
 injury, disease and death; health care expenses; disposal, liability and
 cleanup costs; the waste of resources and raw materials; and an impaired
 natural environment.  PBT and cancer-causing chemicals may be found in a
 wide range of consumer products purchased by state  agencies,  including
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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