STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6195--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Commit- tee on Rules -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to permitting the use of recyclable beverage container packaging The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 27-1011 of the environmental 2 conservation law, as amended by section 7 of part SS of chapter 59 of 3 the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows: 4 3. No deposit initiator, distributor or dealer shall sell or offer for 5 sale in this state beverage containers connected to each other by a 6 separate holding device constructed of plastic [which does not decom- 7 pose], unless such device decomposes by photodegradation or biodegrada- 8 tion or such device is recyclable, made of at least ninety percent post- 9 consumer recycled high density polyethylene, and does not have any holes 10 greater than one and three-quarters inches in diameter. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11680-02-7