New York A 2603: Requires SUNY and CUNY campuses to hire energy management, materials management, and sustainability education and engagement employees

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A02603 Summary:

BILL NOA02603 

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SAME ASSAME AS S01421

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SPONSORKelles

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COSPNSRSimon, Epstein, Romero

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§355 & 6206, Ed L

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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.

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BILL NOA02603 

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01/21/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2603

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES, SIMON, EPSTEIN -- read once and referred
 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

 A. 2603 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