Bill Text: NY A04021 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the installation or replacement of synthetic turf at outdoor athletic fields and facilities owned or operated by municipalities or school districts in the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-30 - referred to environmental conservation [A04021 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A04021-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4021

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 30, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting  the  installation  or  replacement  of  synthetic turf at
          outdoor athletic fields or outdoor athletic facilities owned or  oper-
          ated by municipalities or school districts

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new section 37-0122 to read as follows:
     3  § 37-0122. Synthetic turf; prohibited.
     4    1.  After January first, two thousand twenty-six, synthetic turf shall
     5  not be used in the  installation  or  replacement  of  outdoor  athletic
     6  fields  or  outdoor  athletic  facilities  owned  or operated by munici-
     7  palities or school districts in the state.
     8    2. For the purposes of this section, "synthetic turf" means any  mate-
     9  rials  or  compositions  that  are historically used in place of natural
    10  grass.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07107-03-5