Bill Text: NY S00262 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the purchase of glyphosate by any state department, agency, public benefit corporation or any pesticide applicator employed thereby as a contractor or subcontractor and the application of glyphosate on property owned, operated or leased by the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S00262 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00262-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           262

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting the purchase and use of glyphosate by certain entities

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 12 of  section  33-1301  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter  19 of the laws of 2021, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    12. For any state department, agency, public  benefit  corporation  or
     5  any pesticide applicator employed thereby as a contractor or subcontrac-
     6  tor to purchase any product containing glyphosate or apply glyphosate on
     7  [state]  property[, provided that the application of glyphosate on state
     8  property is permitted only for (a) direct application  in  circumstances
     9  when  there  is no actual or significant threat of direct human exposure
    10  and no effective and practicable alternative, and (b) for the  following
    11  uses, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the department:
    12    (i) to maintain critical infrastructure;
    13    (ii) to manage roadside vegetation to ensure public safety;
    14    (iii)  habitat  management for the control of invasive species identi-
    15  fied pursuant to title seventeen of article nine of this chapter,  pests
    16  of significant public health importance, noxious weeds designated by the
    17  department as injurious to ecosystem health, and the protection of crit-
    18  ical native plant species; and
    19    (iv)  for  research  purposes  to develop sustainable alternatives for
    20  agricultural and environmental usages, as well as research regarding the
    21  environmental motility of glyphosate.
    22    The department shall post information on its website regarding glypho-
    23  sate usage pursuant to this section, including amount and  location,  by
    24  April first of each year] owned, operated or leased by the state.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01110-01-3