New York Senate Bill 5912 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on July 1 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO CITIES
Pending: Senate Cities Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Enacts "Yingyi's law"; requires municipal and government agencies, and individual members of the public to abstain from disposing and destroying of public trees, tree parts that are involved in property damage, personal injury or death to persons from trees growing within and across the public-right-of-ways, including parks and street trees; provides that trees and/or tree parts shall be inspected, analyzed and diagnosed for defects, disease and determine presumed/opinion as to the cause of failure by a full-time independent consulting arborist (CA) trained and skilled in tree diagnostic practices, lab sampling, photo documentation, forensics and legally binding report writing.

Enacts "Yingyi's law"; requires municipal and government agencies, and individual members of the public to abstain from disposing and destroying of public trees, tree parts that are involved in property damage, personal injury or death to persons from trees growing within and across the public-right-of-ways, including parks and street trees; provides that trees and/or tree parts shall be inspected, analyzed and diagnosed for defects, disease and determine presumed/opinion as to the cause of failure by a full-time independent consulting arborist (CA) trained and skilled in tree diagnostic practices, lab sampling, photo documentation, forensics and legally binding report writing.

Sen. Tony Avella [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-08	Senate	REFERRED TO CITIES
2013-11-18	Senate	PRINT NUMBER 5912A
2013-11-18	Senate	AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO RULES
2013-07-01	Senate	REFERRED TO RULES

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S05912&term=2013&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S05912&term=2013&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#S05912
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S05912&term=2013&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#S05912A