Bill Text: NY S06339 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of agriculture and markets to develop guidelines for vegetation management plans to be used by persons or corporations that make claims that they provide pollinator protection.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-04 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8083A [S06339 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S06339-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6339--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. RITCHIE, ALCANTARA, AVELLA, BAILEY, BROOKS, FUNKE, HOYLMAN, KAMINSKY, MARCELLINO, VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Agricul- ture -- recommitted to the Committee on Agriculture in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to guide- lines for pollinator protection The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 16 of the agriculture and markets law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 49 to read as follows: 3 49. Develop, in consultation with the department of environmental 4 conservation and institutions of higher education with expertise in 5 pollinator protection, minimum guidelines for vegetation management 6 plans used by any person, corporation, partnership, association or other 7 organized group of persons who make public claims that their property or 8 commercial enterprise on a property, including, but not limited to solar 9 electric generating systems, is pollinator friendly or provides benefits 10 and protection to pollinators. Such guidelines shall provide guidance 11 for short-term and long-term property management practices that provide 12 and maintain native perennial vegetation to protect the health and well- 13 being of pollinators including, but not limited to the percentage of the 14 property that may be covered with native perennial vegetation; the type, 15 amount, and diversity of native perennial vegetation that may be main- 16 tained on the property; the number of seasons and the minimum number of 17 species of native perennial vegetation that may be in bloom; maintenance 18 practices to be used; the use of pesticides; the width and composition 19 of buffers adjacent to the property; and any other guidelines estab- 20 lished by the department. Nothing in this subdivision shall be deemed to 21 restrict any farming practices by any person, corporation, partnership, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11674-10-8S. 6339--A 2 1 association or other organized group of persons not making such public 2 claims. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 4 have become a law.