S 1421: Requires SUNY and CUNY campuses to hire energy management, materials management, and sustainability education and engagement employees at each SUNY and CUNY campus in numbers proportionate to campus size.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1421 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 9, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. LIU, JACKSON, MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring SUNY and CUNY campuses to hire energy management, materials management, and sustainability education and engagement employees The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 22 to read as follows: 3 22. The state university trustees shall adopt a policy requiring that 4 each college and university of the state university of New York, exclud- 5 ing community colleges, shall employ staff as follows in the following 6 functional areas: 7 a. for campuses with less than four thousand students and the empire 8 state college, one full-time energy management employee, one full-time 9 materials (waste) management employee, and one full-time sustainability 10 education and engagement employee; 11 b. for campuses with between four thousand students and eleven thou- 12 sand nine hundred ninety-nine students, one full-time and one half-time 13 energy management employee, one full-time and one half-time materials 14 (waste) management employee, and one full-time and one half-time 15 sustainability education and engagement employee; 16 c. for campuses with between twelve thousand students and twenty-four 17 thousand nine hundred ninety-nine students, two full-time energy manage- 18 ment employees, two full-time materials (waste) management employees, 19 and two full-time sustainability education and engagement employees; and 20 d. for campuses with twenty-five thousand or more students, two full- 21 time and one half-time energy management employees, two full-time and 22 one half-time materials (waste) management employees, and two full-time 23 and one half-time sustainability education and engagement employees. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03763-01-5 
 S. 1421 2 1 § 2. Section 6206 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 24 to read as follows: 3 24. The board of trustees shall adopt a policy requiring that each 4 institution of the city university of New York shall employ staff as 5 follows in the following functional areas: 6 a. for campuses with less than four thousand students, one full-time 7 energy management employee, one full-time materials (waste) management 8 employee, and one full-time sustainability education and engagement 9 employee; 10 b. for campuses with between four thousand students and eleven thou- 11 sand nine hundred ninety-nine students, one full-time energy management 12 employee and one full-time employee assigned at least fifty percent to 13 energy management, one full-time materials (waste) management employee 14 and one full-time employee assigned at least fifty percent to materials 15 (waste) management, and one full-time sustainability education and 16 engagement employee and one full-time employee assigned at least fifty 17 percent to sustainability education and engagement; 18 c. for campuses with between twelve thousand students and twenty-four 19 thousand nine hundred ninety-nine students, two full-time energy manage- 20 ment employees, two full-time materials (waste) management employees, 21 and two full-time sustainability education and engagement employees; and 22 d. for campuses with twenty-five thousand or more students, two full- 23 time energy management employees and one full-time employee assigned at 24 least fifty percent to energy management, two full-time materials 25 (waste) management employees and one full-time employee assigned at 26 least fifty percent to materials (waste) management, and two full-time 27 sustainability education and engagement employees and one full-time 28 employee assigned at least fifty percent to sustainability education and 29 engagement. 30 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.