Section 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.