Bill Text: NY A00732 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 732 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Prohibits the use of glyphosate on state property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-12-23 - APPROVAL MEMO.70 [A00732 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00732-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         732--B

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. L. ROSENTHAL, SIMON, ABINANTI, WEPRIN, BARRON,
          EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT, GLICK,  D'URSO,  COLTON,  REYES,  ORTIZ,  GRIFFIN,
          THIELE,  GOTTFRIED, WALLACE, RODRIGUEZ, STECK, FALL -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M.  of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
          Environmental  Conservation  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
          recommitted  to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in accord-
          ance with Assembly Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  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
          prohibiting the use of glyphosate on state property

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

     1    Section 1. Section 33-1301 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
     3    12.  For  any  state department, agency, public benefit corporation or
     4  any pesticide applicator employed thereby as a contractor or subcontrac-
     5  tor to apply glyphosate on state property.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect December 31, 2021 and shall  apply  to
     7  contracts entered into on and after the effective date of this act.




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