The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PETITION OF:
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PETITION OF:
Mary S. Rogeness
George N. Peterson, Jr.
John A. Lepper
Viriato Manuel deMacedo
Elizabeth A. Poirier
Robert S. Hargraves
Karyn E. Polito
Susan Williams Gifford
Richard J. Ross
Paul J. P. Loscocco
Donald F. Humason, Jr.
Todd M. Smola
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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter 7 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after section 4Q the following section:--
Section 4R. The commissioner shall, in consultation with the secretary of the executive office of environmental affairs, promulgate regulations prohibiting the distribution of state administered grants to any large institution failing to meet specified recycling standards. For the purposes of this section, a large institution shall be considered a hospital with over 100 beds, an institution of higher education with an enrollment of over 500 full time students, or a public school district. The executive office of environmental affairs shall be charged with determining the recycling standards to be met and the process for auditing an institution’s waste stream. Upon the implementation of such regulations, large institutions not meeting the specified standards will be given three years to meet the standards, during which they may continue to receive state administered grants.
State administered grants dedicated to supporting, in whole or in part, a large institution’s construction project that meets or exceeds the LEED Silver Certification standard of the United States Green Building Council, are exempt from the provisions of this section.