New York A 5082: Prohibits hotels from making available to its hotel guests small plastic bottles containing hospitality personal care products

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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5082
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 10, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, SIMON, EPSTEIN, COOK, STECK, AUBRY,
NIOU, SEAWRIGHT, FAHY, THIELE, ABINANTI, GOTTFRIED, GALEF, DE LA ROSA,
BARRON, L. ROSENTHAL, WEPRIN, GRIFFIN, WOERNER, REYES, PAULIN --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and the state finance
law, in relation to restricting hotels from making available to hotel
guests small plastic bottle hospitality personal care products
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 32 to read as follows:
3 TITLE 32
4 SMALL PLASTIC BOTTLE HOSPITALITY PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT RESTRICTIONS
5 Section 27-3201. Definitions.
6 27-3203. Small plastic bottle hospitality personal care
7 products.
8 27-3205. Violations.
9 27-3207. Preemption of local law.
10 § 27-3201. Definitions.
11 As used in this title:
12 1. "Hotel" means a building or portion of a building which is regular-
13 ly used and kept open as such for the lodging of guests. Hotel includes
14 an apartment hotel, a motel or a boarding house, whether or not meals
15 are served.
16 2. "Hospitality personal care product" means a product provided by a
17 hotel and intended to be applied to or used on the human body or any
18 part thereof for cleansing, conditioning, or moisturizing. Hospitality
19 personal care product includes, but is not limited to, shampoo, condi-
20 tioner, lotion, and liquid soap.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 3. "Small plastic bottle" means a plastic container with less than a
2 twelve ounce capacity that is intended to be non-reusable by the end
3 user.
4 § 27-3203. Small plastic bottle hospitality personal care products.
5 Effective January first, two thousand twenty-four for all hotels with
6 fifty rooms or more and January first, two thousand twenty-five for all
7 hotels with less than fifty rooms, a hotel shall not provide any small
8 plastic bottle containing a hospitality personal care product.
9 § 27-3205. Violations.
10 1. A hotel that violates a provision of this title shall receive a
11 warning notice for the first such violation, detailing the hotel's
12 requirement to correct the violation within thirty days from the date
13 the notice is sent. A hotel shall be liable to the state for a civil
14 penalty of two hundred fifty dollars for the first violation after
15 receiving a warning and failing to correct the violation within thirty
16 days and five hundred dollars for any subsequent violation in the same
17 calendar year. A hearing or opportunity to be heard shall be provided
18 prior to the assessment of any civil penalty.
19 2. The department is hereby authorized to enforce the provisions of
20 this title and all monies collected shall be deposited to the credit of
21 the environmental protection fund established pursuant to section nine-
22 ty-two-s of the state finance law.
23 § 27-3207. Preemption of local law.
24 Jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to restrictions on the
25 provision of small plastic bottle hospitality personal care products is
26 vested exclusively in the state.
27 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 92-s of the state finance law, as
28 amended by section 3 of part PP of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is
29 amended to read as follows:
30 3. Such fund shall consist of the amount of revenue collected within
31 the state from the amount of revenue, interest and penalties deposited
32 pursuant to section fourteen hundred twenty-one of the tax law, the
33 amount of fees and penalties received from easements or leases pursuant
34 to subdivision fourteen of section seventy-five of the public lands law
35 and the money received as annual service charges pursuant to section
36 four hundred four-n of the vehicle and traffic law, all moneys required
37 to be deposited therein from the contingency reserve fund pursuant to
38 section two hundred ninety-four of chapter fifty-seven of the laws of
39 nineteen hundred ninety-three, all moneys required to be deposited
40 pursuant to section thirteen of chapter six hundred ten of the laws of
41 nineteen hundred ninety-three, repayments of loans made pursuant to
42 section 54-0511 of the environmental conservation law, all moneys to be
43 deposited from the Northville settlement pursuant to section one hundred
44 twenty-four of chapter three hundred nine of the laws of nineteen
45 hundred ninety-six, provided however, that such moneys shall only be
46 used for the cost of the purchase of private lands in the core area of
47 the central Suffolk pine barrens pursuant to a consent order with