Bill Text: NY A06899 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the sale and distribution of glyphosate and products containing glyphosate.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A06899 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06899-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6899
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 25, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting  the  sale  and  distribution  of  glyphosate and products
          containing glyphosate
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
     2  new section 37-0115 to read as follows:
     3  § 37-0115. Prohibition of glyphosate and products containing glyphosate.
     4    1. No person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability compa-
     5  ny or corporation shall distribute, sell, offer for sale or use  glypho-
     6  sate or any products containing glyphosate within New York state.
     7    2. For the purposes of this section, glyphosate shall mean a synthetic
     8  compound  that  is  a  non-selective  systemic  herbicide, also known as
     9  N-(phosphonomethyl) glycerine with a chemical formula of C3H8NO5P.
    10    3. The department is authorized to promulgate  such  rules  and  regu-
    11  lations  as  it shall deem necessary to implement the provisions of this
    12  section.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    14  law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
    15  rule  or  regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its
    16  effective date are authorized and directed to be made and  completed  on
    17  or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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