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A00602 Summary:

BILL NOA00602 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRosenthal

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COSPNSRLupardo, Glick, Taylor, Seawright, Simon, Barrett, Bronson, Steck, Weprin, Ramos, Reyes, Epstein,
 Paulin, Colton, Jacobson, Otis, McMahon, Burdick, Gonzalez-Rojas, Zinerman, Hevesi, Kelles,
 Shimsky, Brown K, Novakhov

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 27 Title 34 §§27-3401 - 27-3405, En Con L; add §399-tt, Gen Bus L

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Provides that restaurants may provide single-use plastic straws to customers when explicitly requested by the customer; prohibits single-use plastic stirrers.

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BILL NOA00602 

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01/08/2025referred to environmental conservation

01/07/2026referred to environmental conservation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 602

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, LUPARDO, GLICK, TAYLOR, SEAWRIGHT,
 SIMON, BARRETT, BRONSON, STECK, WEPRIN, RAMOS, REYES, EPSTEIN, PAULIN,
 COLTON, JACOBSON, OTIS, McMAHON, BURDICK, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, ZINERMAN,
 HEVESI, KELLES, SHIMSKY, K. BROWN, NOVAKHOV -- read once and referred
 to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT
 to amend the environmental conservation law and the general business
 law, in relation to prohibitions on single-use plastic straws and stirr-
 ers in restaurants

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

 1 Section 1. Article 27 of the environmental conservation law is amended
 2 by adding a new title 34 to read as follows:

 3 TITLE 34
 4 PLASTIC STRAW AND STIRRER RESTRICTIONS
 5 Section 27-3401. Definitions.
 6 27-3403. Single-use plastic straws and stirrers.
 7 27-3405. Enforcement.
 8 § 27-3401. Definitions.
 9 For the purposes of this title, "restaurant" means any diner or other
 10 eating or beverage establishment, which offers for sale food or beverag-
 11 es to the public, guests, members, or patrons, whether consumption
 12 occurs on or off the premises.
 13 § 27-3403. Single-use plastic straws and stirrers.
 14 1. (a) Restaurants may not provide single-use plastic straws unless
 15 explicitly requested by the customer.
 16 (b) No inquiry into the reason for the request shall be made by a
 17 restaurant or any of its employees in carrying out the request author-
 18 ized by paragraph (a) of this subdivision.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02014-01-5

 A. 602 2

 1 2. Restaurants are prohibited from providing customers with single-use
 2 plastic stirrers.
 3 3. (a) Nothing in this section shall preclude a restaurant from
 4 providing customers with non-plastic straws or stirrers as an alterna-
 5 tive to single-use plastic straws and stirrers, including, but not
 6 limited to, straws and/or stirrers made from paper, sugar cane, bamboo
 7 or compostable materials.
 8 (b) Restaurants that provide compostable straws or stirrers to custom-
 9 ers are required to have access to curbside collection of food waste for
 10 composting.
 11 4. Single-use plastic straws provided by a restaurant, pursuant to
 12 subdivision one of this section, shall not be individually wrapped in
 13 plastic, except for prepackaged individual serving beverages where a
 14 plastic straw is included in the packaging.
 15 § 27-3405. Enforcement.
 16 Every local department of health shall ensure compliance with this
 17 title as part of an inspection of a food place pursuant to section thir-
 18 teen hundred fifty-one of the public health law, the provisions of the
 19 sanitary code and provisions of local ordinances or regulations. Any
 20 establishment that violates this title shall be liable for a civil
 21 penalty in the amount of two hundred dollars for the first violation,
 22 three hundred dollars for the second violation committed on a different
 23 day within a period of twelve months, and five hundred dollars for the
 24 third and each subsequent violation committed on different days within a
 25 period of twelve months, except that th