Bill Text: NY A08110 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires the department of environmental conservation to prepare recommendations for best practices in treating residential properties for tick prevention and management.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-25 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [A08110 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08110-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         8110--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 9, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted to the  Committee  on
          Environmental  Conservation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  require  the  department  of  environmental conservation to
          prepare recommendations for best  practices  in  treating  residential
          properties for tick prevention and management
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.   The  commissioner  of  the  department  of  environmental
     2  conservation shall develop recommendations no later than May 1, 2017 for
     3  residential  property  tick  prevention and management. Such recommenda-
     4  tions shall include but not be limited to the  use  of  landscape  tech-
     5  niques  including  organic  land  care  practices, methods to discourage
     6  rodent activity, use of fungal pathogens, and effective active  ingredi-
     7  ents,  as  defined  in  subdivision 1 of section 33-0101 of the environ-
     8  mental conservation law, including usage information and any label warn-
     9  ings or caution statements. The recommendations shall  be  available  on
    10  the  department's  website and shall be reviewed and revised annually to
    11  reflect current best practices.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11400-06-6
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