A 4234: Requires the establishment of electronics and hazardous waste recycling programs in towns within Nassau and Suffolk counties for one year.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4234 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 31, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Local Governments AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring the establishment of electronics and hazardous waste recycling programs in towns within Nassau and Suffolk counties; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new 2 section 120-dd to read as follows: 3 § 120-dd. Electronics and hazardous waste recycling pilot programs. 1. 4 Each municipality within Nassau and Suffolk counties shall adopt a local 5 law or ordinance establishing an electronics and hazardous waste recycl- 6 ing pilot program within such municipality within one hundred eighty 7 days of the effective date of this section. Such pilot programs shall 8 run for no less than one year. Such pilot programs shall include, but 9 not be limited to: 10 (a) The recycling of electronics and hazardous waste; and 11 (b) A location for residents to drop off electronics and hazardous 12 waste for recycling which is open to residents. 13 2. Within two years of the effective date of this section, each muni- 14 cipality which established a pilot program under this section shall 15 submit a report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, 16 the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate, and the 17 minority leader of the assembly which shall include, but not be limited 18 to, the effectiveness of the pilot program, how much material was 19 collected and if it was treated, disposed of, or recycled, and the 20 number of participants in the pilot program compared to the number of 21 residents within the municipality. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 23 deemed repealed three years after it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04739-01-5