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Meeting Name: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 9/18/2025 10:00 AM Minutes status: Final  
Meeting location: 250 Broadway - 8th Floor - Hearing Room 1
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T2025-4043 *   Oversight - Ongoing Challenges with Street Cleanliness in New York City.Oversight Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Not available
T2025-4043 *   Oversight - Ongoing Challenges with Street Cleanliness in New York City.Oversight Filed, by Committee  Action details Not available
Int 0536-2024 *Justin L. Brannan  Requiring certain retail food stores to post notices on the food donation web portal concerning the availability of excess food, and arranging for the transportation and retrieval of such food.IntroductionThis bill would require certain stores that sell food for off-premises consumption, such as grocery stores, to post notices on the food donation web portal regarding excess food they have available for donation, at least once per month. Stores would also be required to arrange for the retrieval of the food that they are donating and to arrange for the transportation of such food if requested by the recipient. The bill provides an exemption for stores that have agreements in place for the donation of food on at least a monthly basis. By December 1 of each year, the Department of Sanitation or other city entity designated by the Mayor, would be required to submit to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council a report detailing the results of a yearly review of available food on the web portal and whether that available food is expected to meet the demands of city residents in the coming year.Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Not available
Int 0536-2024 *Justin L. Brannan  Requiring certain retail food stores to post notices on the food donation web portal concerning the availability of excess food, and arranging for the transportation and retrieval of such food.IntroductionThis bill would require certain stores that sell food for off-premises consumption, such as grocery stores, to post notices on the food donation web portal regarding excess food they have available for donation, at least once per month. Stores would also be required to arrange for the retrieval of the food that they are donating and to arrange for the transportation of such food if requested by the recipient. The bill provides an exemption for stores that have agreements in place for the donation of food on at least a monthly basis. By December 1 of each year, the Department of Sanitation or other city entity designated by the Mayor, would be required to submit to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council a report detailing the results of a yearly review of available food on the web portal and whether that available food is expected to meet the demands of city residents in the coming year.Laid Over by Committee  Action details Not available
Int 1279-2025 *Diana I. Ayala  Allowing supplemental sanitation service providers to place refuse or recycling next to any public litter basket.IntroductionThis bill would delay until August 1, 2028, the effective date of rules adopted by the NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY) which prohibit a supplemental sanitation service provider from placing refuse or recycling next to or against any public litter basket and which require that material placed out for collection by the Department by a supplemental sanitation service provider be in rigid receptacles with tight fitting lids.Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Not available
Int 1279-2025 *Diana I. Ayala  Allowing supplemental sanitation service providers to place refuse or recycling next to any public litter basket.IntroductionThis bill would delay until August 1, 2028, the effective date of rules adopted by the NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY) which prohibit a supplemental sanitation service provider from placing refuse or recycling next to or against any public litter basket and which require that material placed out for collection by the Department by a supplemental sanitation service provider be in rigid receptacles with tight fitting lids.Laid Over by Committee  Action details Not available
Int 1349-2025 *Eric Dinowitz  Exempting generators of regulated medical waste from commercial waste zones.IntroductionThis bill would exempt generators of regulated medical waste from being required to engage in commercial waste collection agreements with private waste carting companies serving the City’s commercial waste zones program.Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Not available
Int 1349-2025 *Eric Dinowitz  Exempting generators of regulated medical waste from commercial waste zones.IntroductionThis bill would exempt generators of regulated medical waste from being required to engage in commercial waste collection agreements with private waste carting companies serving the City’s commercial waste zones program.Laid Over by Committee  Action details Not available
Int 1370-2025 *Althea V. Stevens  Online submission of citizen’s complaints to enforce dumping prohibition laws.IntroductionThis bill would require the NYC Department of Sanitation to establish an online mechanism for citizens to submit information and sworn statements of potential illegal dumping of refuse onto any public or private space, when carried out during the course of commercial activity and through the use of a vehicle.Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Not available
Int 1370-2025 *Althea V. Stevens  Online submission of citizen’s complaints to enforce dumping prohibition laws.IntroductionThis bill would require the NYC Department of Sanitation to establish an online mechanism for citizens to submit information and sworn statements of potential illegal dumping of refuse onto any public or private space, when carried out during the course of commercial activity and through the use of a vehicle.Laid Over by Committee  Action details Not available