Bill Text: NY S04206 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes an affirmative defense for causes of actions related to damages for any claim on grounds that a party possessed or used seeds or plants that contained genetically engineered or genetically modified organisms without entering into an agreement or paying fees to the manufacturer or licensed distributor of such products.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-12-06 - approval memo.32 [S04206 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04206-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4206--A Cal. No. 433 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 4, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. METZGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the general obligations law, in relation to genetically modified organisms The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general obligations law is amended by adding a new 2 section 9-107 to read as follows: 3 § 9-107. Genetically engineered or genetically modified organisms; 4 affirmative defense. Any party who is sued for damages for any claim on 5 the ground that the party possessed or used seeds or plants that 6 contained genetically engineered or genetically modified organisms with- 7 out entering into an agreement or paying fees to the manufacturer or 8 licensed distributor of such genetically engineered or genetically modi- 9 fied organisms shall have an affirmative defense against any liability 10 if the party shall show that he or she did not knowingly and inten- 11 tionally introduce the genetically engineered or genetically modified 12 organisms into his or her plants or seeds or onto his or her property 13 and he or she did not knowingly gain from the distinctive traits due to 14 genetic modification or genetic engineering. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04406-03-9