Bill Text: NY A05529 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits the use of atrazine, metalaxyl or the neonicotinoids class of chemicals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-19 - print number 5529a [A05529 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05529-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5529--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 27, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, LAVINE, SCHIMEL, ROSENTHAL, QUART,
          AUBRY, MILLER, JAFFEE, COLTON, COOK, GALEF, SKARTADOS, RIVERA, HOOPER,
          BRONSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABINANTI, BRENNAN,  FARRELL,
          GLICK,  GOTTFRIED,  McDONALD,  PEOPLES-STOKES, SOLAGES, THIELE -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on  Environmental  Conservation  --
          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 the chemicals atrazine, metalaxyl and the neon-
          icotinoids class of chemicals
          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  use  of the chemicals atrazine, metalaxyl or
     4               the neonicotinoids class of chemicals.
     5    It shall be unlawful for any person to  distribute,  sell,  offer  for
     6  sale  or use the chemicals atrazine, metalaxyl or the class of chemicals
     7  neonicotinoids, including imidacloprid, clothianidin  and  thiamethoxam,
     8  within  this  state or deliver for transportation or transport in intra-
     9  state commerce or between points within this  state  through  any  point
    10  outside this state.
    11    §  2.  This  act shall take effect January 1, 2018; provided, however,
    12  that effective immediately, the addition and/or repeal of  any  rule  or
    13  regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective
    14  date  are  authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before
    15  such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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