Sentences with phrase «bag fee bill»

Council members who initially voted against the bag fee bill when it passed last month were divided over the extension.

We also wish to thank our City Council members who advocated and voted to pass the New York City carryout bag fee bill.

The former state lawmaker plans to create a second committee — Nickel PAC — that he said will contribute directly to candidates who pledge to support a City Council speaker next year who vowed to bring the bag fee bill up for a new vote.

«The Governor even had the Chutzpah to suggest the City Council's vote for the BYOBag law was some sort of fluke and shouldn't count,» Kellner wrote, referencing a comment Cuomo made that the council vote on the bag fee bill was a close one while the legislation imposing the moratorium overwhelmingly passed the state Legislature.

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The New York City Council voted 28 - 20 to require certain retailers to collect a fee on each carryout bag, paper or plastic, with some exceptions, with Mayor Bill de Blasio expressing support for the measure.

The bill to be taken up later today in the Senate would block any fees or taxes on carry - out merchandise shopping bags in New York City.

That bill has now landed on Cuomo's desk, and the clock is ticking since the City's bag fee is set to come on line February 15.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill on Tuesday that blocked implementation of a 5 - cent fee on plastic shopping bags that was to go into effect the following day in New York City.

The bill instating such fees, which exempts food stamp recipients and transparent produce bags, cleared the City Council last week over bitter opposition.

But as with so much else in the city, the last word on the subject lies with the State Capitol, where hostility to the bag bill has threatened to undo, or at least revise, the fee.

Despite Mr. Lander and Ms. Chin's calls for «bag fees by Earth Day» last month, the bill has failed to gain traction in the Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio gave it at best a lukewarm response in his anti-trash OneNYC pbill has failed to gain traction in the Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio gave it at best a lukewarm response in his anti-trash OneNYC pBill de Blasio gave it at best a lukewarm response in his anti-trash OneNYC plan.

A similar bill in the State Assembly seemed poised to follow until, later on Tuesday, the speakers of the Assembly and the City Council agreed to delay enacting the bag fee while city officials amended the city's bill to the Assembly's liking.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — As the state legislature debated a bill to stop New York City from putting a 5 cent fee on plastic shopping bags, it wasn't just downstate interests that were watching closely.

Rather than hit customers who use plastic and other disposable bags with the 5 - cent fee under the city law, a new bill would actually pay them to use reusable bags.

Gov. Cuomo Tuesday signed a bill to impose a moratorium blocking the city from imposing a controversial 5 - cent fee on plastic disposable bags.

A bill that prevents all cities and towns in the state from imposing bag fees passed the Republican - led Senate on Tuesday, with 36 in favor and 22 opposed.

State lawmakers have voted to delay the implementation of a five - cent fee on plastic and paper grocery bags in New York City, which effectively kills the bill.

Hours before Cuomo announced his decision on the bill, Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda (D - Bronx) and Sens. Marisol Alcantara (D - Manhattan) and Ruben Diaz (D - Bronx) offered up an alternative to the bag fee.

Assemblyman Michael Cusick (D - Staten Island), who sponsored the bill outlawing the bag fee in the Assembly, said there's enough support in the chamber to pass it.

The governor noted in his statement that the bill to impose the bag fee passed the Council by just eight votes while the legislation to impose the moratorium passed the two houses of the state Legislature by a combined 165 to 32.

The guy who blames Democrats for high grocery bills because they support a 3 cent fee on plastic bags... What a LYING LOSER joke you are!

A bill now on Cuomo's desk would delay the implementation of the bag fee by one year, a measure that passed both chambers last week and would likely kill the surcharge, which is due to take effect this week.

The bill released Monday comes after the conclusion of a commission to study the issue, formed after Cuomo and state lawmakers blocked a fee on plastic bags in New York City from taking effect.

The governor said he hasn't made a decision on whether to sign a bill that would block a five - cent fee on grocery bags in NYC, but the clock is ticking.

Plastic bags in the five boroughs will soon come with a 5 - cent price tag, according to a group of legislators who said they have the votes in the NYC Council to pass a bill imposing the fee.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill to impose a moratorium blocking NYC from imposing a controversial 5 - cent fee on plastic disposable bags.

But on Tuesday evening, it was the Republican leader in a statement praising Cuomo for signing a bill that blocks the implementation of a 5 - cent fee on plastic bags in New York City — a measure that had been pushed by the GOP conference, most prominently Sen. Simcha Felder, a Democrat who aligns with the Republicans and is a key vote.

The Senate bill — which would cancel NYC's bag fee altogether — won't become law until it's approved by both the Assembly and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

«Yet for their very first environmental bill of the year, the Senate Majority Coalition has chosen to do the bidding of corporate special interests and overturn New York City's plastic bag fee.

Simcha Felder, left, a Democratic senator who represents parts of Brooklyn, introduced a bill in the State Senate that would eliminate a bag fee in large cities.

In a statement, the American Progressive Bag Alliance, a consortium of plastic bag manufacturers that opposed the Council bill, said the fee was unfair and of minimal value to the environmeBag Alliance, a consortium of plastic bag manufacturers that opposed the Council bill, said the fee was unfair and of minimal value to the environmebag manufacturers that opposed the Council bill, said the fee was unfair and of minimal value to the environment.

The city was ready to start imposing a nickel bag fee on shoppers as of Oct. 1, with the money kept by merchants, until lawmakers in the state Senate rebelled and passed a bill blocking the move.

Felder's bill seeks to reverse an about to go into effect 5 - cent fee on plastic and paper bags provided by New York City retailers.

New York City passed a bill in 2017 to impose a 5 - cent fee on any paper or plastic grocery bag, but the governor and the state Senate blocked it from taking effect.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says he hasn't made a decision on whether to sign a bill that would block a five - cent fee on grocery bags in the city, but the clock is ticking.

The sponsor of the city bill to add a fee, Brooklyn City Councilman Brad Lander, says Cuomo's move won't incentivize reusable bags.

As you know, there were only 10 Democratic Senators, together with myself, who joined the Republicans in the Senate to support a bill sponsored by Senator Simcha Felder, to reject the City of New York's five cents (5 cents) per plastic bag fee to shoppers in the five boroughs.

Councilman Brad Lander (D - Brooklyn), who is co-sponsoring the bill with Councilwoman Margaret Chin (D - Manhattan), said it's one of several options on the table, including banning plastic bags outright while imposing a fee just on paper bags.

The Council today is expected to pass a controversial bill that would put at least a 5 - cent fee on plastic and paper shopping bags.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a news conference on Wednesday defended his approval a bill that blocks a 5 - cent fee on plastic bags from taking effect in New York City, saying the surcharge's approval «clearly» fell within the state's authority.

In February 2017, the governor signed a bill killing a law that would have levied a fee of five cents a piece on plastic bags in New York City.

ALBANY — The state Legislature on Tuesday passed a bill that would halt a forthcoming five - cent fee on plastic bags in New York City.

The councilman and other backers of the three - year bill, such as co-sponsor Margaret Chin (D - Manhattan), say the fee would reduce 60 to 90 percent of the more than 9.3 billion plastic bags New Yorkers throw away annually by promoting the use of reusable bags.

Under the bag fee law, the city's sanitation department is also required to conduct a study on the bill's impact on consumers and the city's trash production.

The City Council passed its bag fee last May, though an additional bill backed backed up its implementation to August.

NEW YORK CITY, NY — The New York Assembly passed legislation Tuesday blocking the implementation of New York City's new five cent fee on paper and plastic bags, one day after the bill was also passed by the State Senate.

The City Council on Thursday is expected to approve a controversial bill that would put at least a 5 - cent fee on plastic and paper shopping bags.

The proposed bill would also ban single - use plastic bags and impose a 10 cent fee for paper.

Mr. Lander and Ms. Chin plan to rally in support of their bag - fee bill on the steps of City Hall tomorrow shortly before it is considered by the sanitation committee — of which which neither they nor Mr. Espinal are members.

Plastic bags will soon come with a 5 - cent price tag, according to a group of legislators who said Wednesday they have the votes in the City Council to pass a bill imposing the fee.