Bill Text: NY A06899 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6899 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 25, 2019 ___________ 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. LBD05486-01-9