New York A 1340: Relates to special restrictions on campaign contributions for district attorney candidates

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A01340 Summary:

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Expands the types of batteries included in the rechargeable battery recycling program to include certain car batteries and requires consumers to pay a five dollar incentive payment when purchasing a new rechargeable battery if the consumer does not return an old rechargeable battery for recycling.

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01/09/2025referred to environmental conservation

01/07/2026referred to environmental conservation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1340

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 9, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to recy-
 cling certain rechargeable batteries

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 27-1803 of the environmental
 2 conservation law, as added by chapter 562 of the laws of 2010, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 4. "rechargeable battery" means any rechargeable nickel-cadmium,
 5 sealed lead, lithium ion, nickel metal hydride battery, or any other
 6 such dry cell battery capable of being recharged [weighing less than
 7 twenty-five pounds], or battery packs containing such batteries[; but
 8 shall not include a battery used as the principal electric power source
 9 for a vehicle, such as, but not limited to, an automobile, boat, truck,
 10 tractor, golf cart or wheelchair; for storage of electricity generated
 11 by an alternative power source, such as solar or wind-driven generators;
 12 or for memory backup that is an integral component of an electronic
 13 device];
 14 § 2. Section 27-1807 of the environmental conservation law is amended
 15 by adding a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
 16 1-a. a. Any consumer purchasing a new rechargeable nickel-cadmium,
 17 sealed lead, lithium ion, nickel metal hydride battery, or any other
 18 such dry cell battery capable of being recharged who does not return a
 19 used rechargeable battery to the retailer at the time of such purchase
 20 shall pay such retailer a return incentive payment of five dollars per
 21 rechargeable battery sold.
 22 b. A retailer shall refund to a consumer the five dollar return incen-
 23 tive payment collected pursuant to this subdivision if, within thirty
 24 days of the date of the purchase of a new rechargeable battery, the
 25 consumer returns to such retailer a used rechargeable battery of the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03408-01-5

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 1 same type as the newly purchased rechargeable battery. Any return incen-
 2 tive payment not refunded to the consumer pursuant to this subdivision
 3 shall be retained by the retailer.
 4 c. In collecting a return incentive payment pursuant to this subdivi-
 5 sion, the retailer shall inform the consumer of the retailer's obli-
 6 gation to refund such return incentive payment to such consumer should
 7 the consumer return a used rechargeable battery within thirty days.
 8 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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