All Roll Calls
Yes: 26 • No: 0
Northern Mariana IslandsSB 24-0824th Northern Mariana Islands Legislature (2025-2026)Senate
Amend CNMI Recycling Act of 1999
Sponsored By: Manny Gregory Tenorio Castro (Democratic)
Enacted
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Already-taxed goods avoid added disposal fees
Items taxed under 4 CMC § 1405 are exempt from CNMI advance disposal fees. Importers and sellers of those goods do not owe this added fee. The law does not list the covered goods or set a fee amount.
Disposal fees fund island recycling services
All CNMI advance disposal fee money goes into the Environmental Management Fund in the Commonwealth Treasury. The money supports reuse and recycling of the specific materials that generated the fees. It can cover public operations, private collection contracts, recycler payments, facilities, equipment, repairs, and shipping to off-island markets. It also supports local market research and startup grants, education, recycling staff, program administration, and related travel and training. The Public Works secretary controls spending after consulting the solid waste director; the law sets no total funding amount.
New disposal fee rules for businesses
The CNMI Department of Public Works now leads disposal fee programs for materials suitable for reuse or recycling. It evaluates environmental harm, toxicity, waste amounts, markets, collection methods, and local benefits before setting material-specific rules. Fees must support self-sufficient programs, covering collection, processing, shipping, public incentives, and education while accounting for material sales. Rules must cover fee collection, importer payment audits, penalties, fund uses, outreach, and business duties for collection and rebates. Where possible, importers or wholesalers take part through retailer redemption agreements or permitted recyclers; materials stay separate unless joint management helps. Environmental Quality and Public Works officials or their agents can inspect covered importers’ records and set record-keeping rules. The law sets no fee amounts.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Manny Gregory Tenorio Castro
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 7/31/2025
Roll call on SB 24-08
Yes: 18 • No: 0
Senate vote • 7/14/2025
Roll call on SB 24-08
Yes: 8 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
PL 24-12
8/7/2025SenateHouse Final Reading — Passed
7/31/2025HouseSenate Final Reading — Passed
7/14/2025SenateSenate First Reading — Passed
7/14/2025SenateSenate Report Action — Approved
7/14/2025SenateIntroduced
1/27/2025Senate
Bill Text
24-08
1/27/2025
24-13
1/27/2025
PL 24-12
1/27/2025
Related Bills
HB 24-108, To provide a Budget Plan of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for Fiscal Year 2027 and make appropriations for the operations and activities of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, its agencies, instrumentalities, and independent programs, and to provide budget authority for government corporations; and for other purposes.
HLB 24-62, To appropriate $500,000.00 from revenues collected for the Third Senatorial District pursuant to Public Law 20-59; and for other purposes.
SB 24-48, Establish a Division of Customs and Biosecurity within the DOF
HB 24-84, To authorize the expenditure of $2,105,563.00 identified by the Governor as a surplus from Fiscal Year 2025 revenues that shall be appropriated by the Legislature to the Public School System and to the 25% Retirees’ Pension Obligation.
HB 24-74, To appropriate funds derived from trust interest income from the Marianas Public Land Trust towards payment of household allotments of Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP) benefits for November 2025.
HB 24-63, To amend Title 4 sections 1991 to 1995 relating to the 3% construction tax on gross revenues derived from certain non-residential construction projects and to enact a new section 1996 pertaining to Applicability; and for other purposes.