senate Bill S2022

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires certain waste transported by rail to be covered with hard tarping

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Current Bill Status Via A4928 - Passed Senate & Assembly


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Actions

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Assembly Actions - Lowercase
Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 23, 2023 returned to assembly
passed senate
3rd reading cal.311
substituted for s2022
May 23, 2023 substituted by a4928
Feb 13, 2023 advanced to third reading
Feb 08, 2023 2nd report cal.
Feb 07, 2023 1st report cal.311
Jan 18, 2023 referred to environmental conservation

Votes

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Feb 7, 2023 - Environmental Conservation committee Vote

S2022
10
1
committee
10
Aye
1
Nay
0
Aye with Reservations
0
Absent
0
Excused
0
Abstained
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Environmental Conservation Committee Vote: Feb 7, 2023

nay (1)

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S2022 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4928
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §27-0712, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6098
2017-2018: S3676
2019-2020: S2490
2021-2022: S4203

S2022 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires putrescible and non-putrescible waste to be covered by a hard tarp when transported by rail.

S2022 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S2022 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2022
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 18, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. ADDABBO, COMRIE, LIU, MYRIE, SEPULVEDA -- read twice
   and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
   on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   covering putrescible and non-putrescible waste transported by rail

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  27-0712 of the environmental
 conservation law, as added by chapter  402  of  the  laws  of  1989,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   2. A municipality or any individual, firm or corporation acting on its
 behalf  or  any other individual, firm or corporation shall not cause or
 permit any solid waste to be transported on any vehicle, barge, ship, or
 scow unless the solid waste on the vehicle,  barge,  ship,  or  scow  is
 covered  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT PUTRESCIBLE WASTE TRANSPORTED BY RAIL
 SHALL BE COVERED WITH SEALING HARD LIDS IN  A  MANNER  NOT  INCONSISTENT
 WITH  FEDERAL  RAILROAD  ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS, AND NON-PUTRESCIBLE
 WASTE SHIPPED BY RAIL  SHALL  BE  COVERED  WITH  HARD  TARPING  SECURELY
 FASTENED OVER THE LOAD, WHICH SHALL NOT EXCEED THE HEIGHT OF THE SIDE OF
 THE  RAIL  CONTAINER, IN A MANNER NOT INCONSISTENT WITH FEDERAL RAILROAD
 ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04339-01-3


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