S5684 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Relates to returnable bottles; adds noncarbonated soft drinks, certain noncarbonated fruit or vegetable juices, coffee and tea beverages, carbonated fruit beverages and cider to the definition of "beverage"; provides that beginning April 1, 2027, the handling fee will be six cents for each beverage container accepted by a deposit initiator from a dealer or operator of a redemption center; directs the multi-agency bottle bill fraud investigation team to submit a report on findings of pervasive bottle redemption fraud in New York state.
- Title
- Relates to returnable bottles; repealer
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-01-07
- In committee
- Environmental Conservation
- Introduced
- 2025-02-27
- Same as
- A6543
- Law section
- Environmental Conservation Law
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
Heard in committee
- Environmental Conservation NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A6543 (2025-26 session) NY State bill