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New York · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

S 1719: Relates to registration as a redemption center and the handling fee paid to any dealer or operator of a redemption center

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

S 1719 is a bill introduced in the New York Senate on January 13, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Relates to registration as a redemption center and the handling fee paid to any dealer or operator of a redemption center. Primary sponsor: Michelle Hinchey (Democratic/Working Families). Most recent recorded action (January 7, 2026): REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Increases the handling fee paid by a deposit initiator to a dealer or operator of a redemption center from three and one half cents to five cents per container; decreases the amount of quarterly payments a deposit initiator must pay the commissioner of taxation and finance from eighty to forty-seven percent of the balance of initiator's refund value account; provides for registration as a redemption center.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic/Working Families 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Michelle HincheyPrimary sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate41

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
  2. REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source