NY Legis L § 16 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LEG - Legislative Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature 16 - Supplies Furnished by Secretary and Clerk.

§ 16. Supplies  furnished by secretary and clerk. a.  The secretary of   the senate, or such other officers or employees of  the  senate  as  the   temporary  president  of the senate shall designate and the clerk of the   assembly, or such other officers or employees of  the  assembly  as  the   speaker  of  the  assembly shall designate, respectively, shall purchase   all stationery, office supplies and equipment necessary for the official   use of the members, officers and employees, and shall prepay the postage   on all official mail deposited in the  post  office  of  the  respective   houses  for  transmission through the mails by members of the senate and   assembly, respectively.b. All products purchased  shall  be  recycled  products,  which  meet   contract  specifications,  unless  the  only  available product does not   contain recycled content, and provided that the  cost  of  the  recycled   product  does not exceed a cost premium of ten percent above the cost of   a comparable product that is not a recycled  product  or,  if  at  least   fifty  percent of the secondary materials utilized in the manufacture of   that product are generated from the waste stream in New York state,  the   cost  of  the recycled product does not exceed a cost premium of fifteen   percent above the cost of a comparable product that is  not  a  recycled   product.  For the purpose of this section and until July first, nineteen   hundred  ninety-six, "recycled product" shall mean any product which has   been manufactured from secondary materials, as  defined  in  subdivision   one  of  section  two hundred sixty-one of the economic development law,   and meets secondary material content requirements adopted by the  office   of  general  services  under  subdivision  one  of  section  one hundred   seventy-seven of the state finance law for  products  available  to  the   legislature  under  state  contract  or,  if  no  such contract for such   product is available, any product which  meets  the  secondary  material   content  requirements  adopted  by  the secretary of the senate, or such   other officers or employees of the senate as the temporary president  of   the senate shall designate, and the clerk of the assembly, or such other   officers  or  employees  as the speaker of the assembly shall designate,   respectively, with respect to a specific commodity procurement  by  such   entity.  On  or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, "recycled   product" shall mean, for the purposes of this section, any product which   has  been  manufactured  from  secondary  materials,   as   defined   in   subdivision  one  of  section  two  hundred  sixty-one  of  the economic   development law, and which meets the requirements of subdivision two  of   section  27-0717  of  the environmental conservation law and regulations   promulgated  pursuant  thereto.  Whenever  purchasing  or  causing   the   purchase  of  printing  on  recycled paper pursuant to this section, the   secretary of the senate, or such other  officers  or  employees  of  the   senate as the temporary president of the senate shall designate, and the   clerk  of  the  assembly,  or  such  other  officers or employees as the   speaker of the assembly shall designate, respectively, shall require the   printed  material  to  contain  the  official  state  recycling   emblem   established  pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of  section  27-0717 of the   environmental conservation  law  and  regulations  promulgated  pursuant   thereto   if   such  paper  has  been  approved  by  the  department  of   environmental  conservation  as  satisfying  the  requirements  of  such   statute  and  regulations,  or,  if such paper has not been so approved,   require the printed  material  to  include  a  printed  statement  which   indicates  the  percentages  of  pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled   material content of such paper.