The Senate Standing Committee on Environmental Conservation advanced legislation sponsored by Senator Parker that would create an extended-producer-responsibility framework for packaging production, recycling and related infrastructure and programs. The committee voted to refer the bill to the Senate Finance Committee after discussion and without specified named movers for the motion.

Committee chair (identified in the hearing as the presiding chair) opened the agenda by introducing the bill as "14 64 by Senator Parker," describing it as the "environmental conservation model relation and action in packaging, production, recycling, infrastructure act." Senator Stack said he would withhold final support because of remaining concerns and cited recent memoranda of opposition from the Consumer Brands Association and a business council. "There's a lot of stuff in there," Stack said, urging additional review.

Senator Palumbo expressed conditional support for the bill's goals but said the bill should proceed incrementally because of costs and technology limits, and warned that municipalities' reimbursement provisions could be "prohibitive." "Microplastics ... it's poison," Palumbo said while urging a slower rollout.

Senator Maynard, who represents Central New York, pushed back against slowing the bill on the grounds of regional waste impacts, saying communities near landfills do not want to be "the trash capital of the Northeast" and arguing that reducing disposables is necessary to limit new waste infrastructure.

Senator Williams praised the chair's persistence in advancing the measure and called for state-level action given a perceived lack of national leadership. The sponsor and chair noted the bill is a re-pass of last year's measure, described this version as the fifth iteration and said it incorporates about 25 significant modifications from earlier drafts, including restoring a producer responsibility organization structure, revising rates and dates, narrowing listed chemicals, strengthening the process to remove chemicals and allowing access to economic development grants to help manufacturers transition equipment.

The chair said negotiations will continue with the governor during the chapter-amendment process and that additional changes remain possible. After a motion and second (not identified by name in the transcript), the committee recorded a voice vote. The presiding chair reported "one in the negative, one without rec and the others without rec" and announced the bill would be referred to the Finance Committee.

The record shows substantial stakeholder concern was raised during the committee: industry groups submitted formal opposition memos, and several senators expressed either reservations about the bill's pace and costs or urgency to act. The committee's next step is consideration by Finance and further negotiations with the governor during chapter amendment, per statements made on the record.