Section 25. Duties of the commission

The commission shall:
    1.  Draft  or  aid  in  drafting  or  examine  legislative  bills  and
  resolutions  and  amendments  thereto,  upon  request  of  a  member  or
  committee of either house of the legislature;
    2.  Advise  as  to  the  constitutionality,  consistency  or effect of
  proposed legislation upon request of a member  or  committee  of  either
  house of the legislature;
    3.  Make  researches  and  examinations  as to any subject of proposed
  legislation upon request of either house or of  a  committee  of  either
  house of the legislature;
    4. Expend monies made available to the commission by appropriation for
  the  employment  of  personnel,  including  temporary  services, and for
  expenses of  maintenance  and  operation,  including  labor,  materials,
  office   supplies,   communication  equipment,  furniture,  alterations,
  repairs, furnishings, purchase of books, development  and  operation  of
  systems  in  support  of the legislature and traveling expenses, and for
  services and expenses  related  to  the  legislative  printing  for  the
  legislature  contract  pursuant  to  section  four of the New York State
  printing and public  documents  law,  including  with  respect  to  such
  contract the printing of bills, additional copies of bills, the printing
  and  binding  of  session  laws and the classification of appropriations
  (black book),  the  senate  and  assembly  journals  and  certain  other
  miscellaneous documents and messages set forth in such section four; and
  for   services  and  expenses  incurred  in  the  installation,  rental,
  development, maintenance and operation of  centralized  data  processing
  systems,  programs  and  equipment  for  the  creation  of  a  data bank
  containing  the  official  statutes  of  the  state  and   miscellaneous
  information,  including,  but  not limited to, the text of the rules and
  regulations of state agencies as filed with the secretary of  state  for
  use  in  the  preparation  and  composition  of  bills;  preparation and
  composition of  calendars,  journals,  session  laws  and  miscellaneous
  documents;  the  operation  of  a  bill  status retrieval system for the
  senate and assembly; and  the  development  of  a  statutory  and  other
  miscellaneous information retrieval system for the legislature and other
  entities;  and for services and expenses related to the contract for the
  printing,  publication  and  distribution  of  the  State  of  New  York
  Legislative  Digest  pursuant  to  section  five  of  the New York state
  printing and public documents law. Such funds  shall  be  expended  upon
  approval of the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the
  assembly or their respective designees, notwithstanding and unrestricted
  by  the provisions of any general or special law. 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 senate  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 and 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.