Bill Text: NY S02946 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to guidelines for best practices in treating residential properties for integrated pest management to assist in the prevention of ticks.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S02946 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S02946-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2946 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 26, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SERINO, KENNEDY, O'MARA, RITCHIE, TEDISCO -- 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 guidelines for best practices in treating residential properties for integrated pest management The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 33-0303 of the environmental conservation law is 2 amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows: 3 8. The commissioner shall develop guidelines for best practices in 4 treating residential properties for integrated pest management to assist 5 in the prevention of ticks that contribute to tick-borne infections. 6 Such guidelines shall include but not be limited to the use of landscape 7 techniques, methods to discourage rodent activity and effective pesti- 8 cide applications. The guidelines shall be available on the department's 9 website and shall be reviewed and revised annually with current best 10 practices. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07278-01-1
