New York A 8637: Establishes a temporary commission to study the environmental and health effects of evolving 5G technology

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A08637 Summary:

BILL NOA08637 

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SAME ASSAME AS S08168

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SPONSORKelles

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COSPNSRSimon, Schiavoni, Kassay, Gallagher

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd 375, add Art 18-B 392 - 396, Exec L; amd Art 27 Title 31 Title Head, 27-3101, 71-2702, 71-2712, 71-2713 &
27-0501, En Con L; add Art 35-A 1010 - 1013, Lab L

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Relates to the reuse of building construction, deconstruction, and demolition materials, including requiring local deconstruction ordinances and reporting requirements for local political subdivisions awarded grants for construction, deconstruction and demolition projects; establishes a construction, deconstruction, and demolition waste prevention and reduction grant and technical support program; establishes deconstruction contractor certification requirements.

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BILL NOA08637 

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05/22/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

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Go to topA08637 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8637

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 22, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Governmental Operations

 AN ACT to amend the executive law and the environmental conservation
 law, in relation to deconstruction and salvage of building
 construction, deconstruction, and demolition materials; and to amend
 the labor law, in relation to deconstruction contractor certification

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "building materials reduction, reuse, and recycling act".
 3 § 2. Section 375 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 4 subdivision 10 to read as follows:
 5 10. To, as soon as practicable and no later than eighteen months after
 6 the effective date of this subdivision, update the uniform fire
 7 prevention and building code to reflect any changes the council deems
 8 necessary and appropriate to support the salvage and reuse of valuable
 9 building materials and reduce the generation of construction and demoli-
 10 tion waste going to landfills, consistent with the purposes set forth in
 11 section three hundred ninety-two of this chapter.
 12 § 3. The executive law is amended by adding a new article 18-B to read
 13 as follows:

 14 ARTICLE 18-B
 15 BUILDING MATERIALS REDUCTION, REUSE, AND RECYCLING PROMOTION ACT

 16 Section 392. Legislative findings and intent.
 17 393. Definitions.
 18 394. Local deconstruction ordinance.
 19 395. Reporting requirements.
 20 396. Construction, deconstruction, and demolition waste
 21 prevention and reduction grant and technical support
 22 program.
 23 § 392. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature hereby finds
 24 and declares that the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13128-03-5

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 1 (CLCPA) of 2019 and the Climate Action Council's Scoping Plan Waste
 2 Sector Vision for 2050 call for a dramatic shift in the way waste is
 3 managed, to the point that landfills and combustors are only used spar-
 4 ingly for specific material streams, that reduction, reuse and and recy-
 5 cling of building materials are robust and ubiquitous practices, and
 6 that deconstructed building materials are processed separately to maxi-
 7 mize their continued usefulness. In New York state, local governments
 8 carry responsibility for materials management and solid waste management
 9 programming but lack targeted state funding to invest in systems
 10 supporting the deconstruction and salvage of valuable materials from
 11 buildings for reuse. Finally, the legislature also finds and declares
 12 that it is in the public interest, in order to further the purposes of
 13 the state policy on solid waste management articulated in section
 14 27-0106 of the environmental conservation law, for local political
 15 subdivisions to adopt local laws or ordinances incentivizing decon-
 16 struction and salvage of bu