Bill Text: NY S00225 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S00225 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00225-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           225
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sens. HOYLMAN, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed 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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