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

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         732--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. L. ROSENTHAL, SIMON, ABINANTI, WEPRIN, BARRON,
          EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT, GLICK -- read once and referred to  the  Committee
          on  Environmental  Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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 13 to read as follows:
     3    13.  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 January 1, 2021.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01850-04-9