S1497 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Implements a one year phase-in period for a local law, ordinance or resolution imposing a paper carryout bag reduction fee where forty percent of such fees are returned to such county or city for the purpose of purchasing and distributing reusable bags, with priority given to low- and fixed-income communities, and after the first year, such forty percent of fees shall be remitted to the person who collected the fees.
- Title
- Relates to the paper carryout bag reduction fee
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-03-25
- In committee
- Finance
- Introduced
- 2025-01-10
- Same as
- A5072
- Law section
- Environmental Conservation Law
Sponsors
Heard in committee
- Environmental Conservation NY State Senate committee
- Finance NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A5072 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Environmental Conservation, 2026-03-25 Referred to committee; referred to Finance
- Environmental Conservation, 2025-05-28
- Environmental Conservation, 2025-05-27 Referred to committee; referred to Finance