Bill Text: NJ A5530 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires State Board of Agriculture to provide list of environmentally harmful plant species to certain committees of Legislature each year.*

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-06-10 - Reported out of Assembly Comm. with Amendments, 2nd Reading [A5530 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A5530-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 5530

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JUNE 6, 2019

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  ERIC HOUGHTALING

District 11 (Monmouth)

Assemblyman  MATTHEW W. MILAM

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

Assemblywoman  JOANN DOWNEY

District 11 (Monmouth)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Land

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires State Board of Agriculture to provide list of environmentally harmful plant species to certain committees of Legislature each year.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee on June 10, 2019, with amendments.

 

An Act concerning environmentally harmful plant species and supplementing chapter 7 of Title 4 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

      1.   The State Board of Agriculture shall provide annually to the ¹[Legislature pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1)] the Senate Environment and Energy Committee and the Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee or their successors,¹ a list of all plant species, which, in the opinion of the board, should not be sold or cultivated in the State because of the plant's detrimental effect on the environment.  For each item, the list shall include:

      a.   the binomial name and all common names of the plant;

      b.   the life cycle of the plant;

      c.   the means of reproduction of the plant;

      d.   the geographical distribution of the plant throughout the State;

      e.   whether or not the plant is considered by the Department of Environmental Protection to be an invasive species;

      f.    whether or not the plant has a detrimental effect on the migration and life cycle of animal pollinators; and

      g.   any detrimental effect on the environment caused by the plant.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.