Bill Text: NY S05579 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the written notices, signs and markers required for pesticides for commercial and residential lawn application to be printed in both the English and Spanish languages and any other languages if the commissioner of environmental conservation deems it necessary.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-08-24 - signed chap.145 [S05579 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05579-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5579--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 7, 2019
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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
          -- recommitted to  the  Committee  on  Environmental  Conservation  in
          accordance  with  Senate  Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          requiring certain signs and notices relating to pesticides for commer-
          cial or residential lawn application to be printed in both the English
          and Spanish languages

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph c of subdivision 1 of section
     2  33-1004  of  the environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 285
     3  of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i) All persons performing residential lawn applications  treating  an
     5  area  more than one hundred square feet shall affix markers to be placed
     6  within or along the perimeter of  the  area  where  pesticides  will  be
     7  applied. Markers are to be placed so as to be clearly visible to persons
     8  immediately outside the perimeter of such property. [Such markers] Mark-
     9  ers shall be posted at least twelve inches above the ground and shall be
    10  at  least  four  inches by five inches in size. Such markers shall be in
    11  both the English and Spanish languages, and any other languages  if  the
    12  commissioner deems it necessary pursuant to rules and regulations.
    13    §  2. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 33-1005 of the
    14  environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 285 of the  laws  of
    15  2000, is amended to read as follows:
    16    The  commissioner  shall promulgate rules and regulations establishing
    17  uniform standards for a consumer pesticide use  information  sign  which
    18  shall  be  placed  in retail establishments that sell general use pesti-
    19  cides for commercial or residential lawn application. This sign shall be

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  in both the English and Spanish languages, and any  other  languages  if
     2  the  commissioner  deems it necessary pursuant to rules and regulations,
     3  and shall contain the following information:
     4    §  3.  Subdivision 2 of section 33-1005 of the environmental conserva-
     5  tion law, as added by chapter 285 of the laws of  2000,  is  amended  to
     6  read as follows:
     7    2.  The  commissioner  shall prepare and publish, in consultation with
     8  the commissioner of health, educational materials, in both  the  English
     9  and  Spanish languages and any other languages if the commissioner deems
    10  it necessary, explaining the requirements  of  paragraphs  b  and  c  of
    11  subdivision  one  of  section  33-1004 of this article and section three
    12  hundred ninety-c of the social services law and the human  and  environ-
    13  mental health effects of lawn care pesticides.
    14    §  4.  Subdivision 3 of section 33-1005 of the environmental conserva-
    15  tion law, as added by chapter 285 of the laws of  2000,  is  amended  by
    16  adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
    17    c.  The  written  notice required by paragraph b of subdivision one of
    18  section 33-1004 of this article shall be in both the English and Spanish
    19  languages, and any other languages if the commissioner deems  it  neces-
    20  sary pursuant to rules and regulations.
    21    § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    22  it shall have become a law.