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Assembly Bill A10354

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Permits the use of plastic bags until January 1, 2021

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2019-A10354 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Part H §5, Chap 58 of 2019

2019-A10354 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits the use of plastic bags until January 1, 2021 and suspends any rule or regulation concerning bag waste reduction currently in effect until January 1, 2021 in response to the public health emergency related to the coronavirus (COVID-19).

2019-A10354 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10354
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 29, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to amend part H of chapter 58 of the laws of 2019, amending the
   environmental conservation law and other laws relating to establishing
   guidelines for bag waste reduction, in relation to  the  effectiveness
   thereof; and suspends any rule or regulation concerning such bag waste
   reduction currently in effect until January 1, 2021 in response to the
   public health emergency related to the coronavirus (COVID-19)
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 5 of part H of chapter 58  of  the  laws  of  2019,
 amending  the  environmental conservation law and other laws relating to
 establishing guidelines for bag waste reduction, is amended to  read  as
 follows:
   § 5. This act shall take effect [March 1, 2020] JANUARY 1, 2021.
   §  2. Any rule or regulation established and/or enacted in furtherance
 of part H of chapter 58 of the laws of 2019  are  hereby  suspended  and
 shall resume effectiveness on January 1, 2021.
   §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
 have been in full force and effect on and after March 1, 2020.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16014-02-0

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