Requires SUNY and CUNY campuses to hire energy management, materials management, and sustainability education and engagement employees at each SUNY and CUNY campus in numbers proportionate to campus size.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A6536
SPONSOR: Kelles TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to requiring SUNY and
CUNY campuses to hire energy management, materials management, and
sustainability education and engagement employees
PURPOSE:
To ensure SUNY and CUNY schools hire sustainability, and waste and ener-
gy management employees.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends section 355 of the education law section by adding new
subdivision 22 which establishes that SUNY trustees adopt a policy
requiring each college and university of SUNY shall employ energy
management, materials (waste) management, and sustainability education
and employment employees.
Section 2 amends section 6206 of the education law adding new subdivi-
sion 22 for the same as Section 1 applied to CUNY
Section 3 effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act requires many insti-
tutions to fundamentally change how they engage with the world. Estab-
lishing full-time positions at our higher education institutions would
achieve this more broadly than just adopting new policies or giving
these full-time jobs out to several other employees who already have
full-time jobs. Making sure our higher education institutions practice
what they often educate is essential to ensuring these institutions are
leading the way and ahead of the curve on sustainability policies.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6536
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 13, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring SUNY and
CUNY campuses to hire energy management, materials management, and
sustainability education and engagement employees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 22 to read as follows:
3 22. The state university trustees shall adopt a policy requiring that
4 each college and university of the state university of New York, exclud-
5 ing community colleges, shall employ staff as follows in the following
6 functional areas:
7 a. for campuses with less than four thousand students and the empire
8 state college, one full-time energy management employee, one full-time
9 materials (waste) management employee, and one full-time sustainability
10 education and engagement employee;
11 b. for campuses with between four thousand students and eleven thou-
12 sand nine hundred ninety-nine students, one full-time and one half-time
13 energy management employee, one full-time and one half-time materials
14 (waste) management employee, and one full-time and one half-time
15 sustainability education and engagement employee;
16 c. for campuses with between twelve thousand students and twenty-four
17 thousand nine hundred ninety-nine students, two full-time energy manage-
18 ment employees, two full-time materials (waste) management employees,
19 and two full-time sustainability education and engagement employees; and
20 d. for campuses with twenty-five thousand or more students, two full-
21 time and one half-time energy management employees, two full-time and
22 one half-time materials (waste) management employees, and two full-time
23 and one half-time sustainability education and engagement employees.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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A. 6536 2
1 § 2. Section 6206 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 22 to read as follows:
3 22. The board of trustees shall adopt a policy requiring that each
4 institution of the city university of New York shall employ staff as
5 follows in the following functional areas:
6 a. for campuses with less than four thousand students, one full-time
7 energy management employee, one full-time materials (waste) management
8 employee, and one full-time sustainability education and engagement
9 employee;
10 b. for campuses with between four thousand students and eleven thou-
11 sand nine hundred ninety-nine students, one full-time energy management
12 employee and one full-time employee assigned at least fifty percent to
13 energy management, one full-time materials (waste) management employee
14 and one full-time employee assigned at least fifty percent to materials
15 (waste) management, and one full-time sustainability education and
16 engagement employee and one full-time employee assigned at least fifty
17 percent to sustainability education and engagement;
18 c. for campuses with between twelve thousand students and twenty-four
19 thousand nine hundred ninety-nine students, two full-time energy manage-
20 ment employees, two full-time materials (waste) management employees,
21 and two full-time sustainability education and engagement employees; and
22 d. for campuses with twenty-five thousand or more students, two full-
23 time energy management employees and one full-time employee assigned at
24 least fifty percent to energy management, two full-time materials
25 (waste) management employees and one full-time employee assigned at
26 least fifty percent to materials (waste) management, and two full-time
27 sustainability education and engagement employees and one full-time
28 employee assigned at least fifty percent to sustainability education and
29 engagement.
30 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
