Bill Text: NY S04164 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4164

Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S04164 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04164-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4164

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  HOYLMAN-SIGAL,  KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environ-
          mental 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 37-0123 to read as follows:
     3  § 37-0123. 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 to be made and completed on or before such
    17  effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08468-01-3