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- Print number 418c
- Amend and recommit to environmental conservation
- Print number 418b
- Amend and recommit to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Print number 418a
- Amend (t) and recommit to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
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Requires integrated pest management plans in child day care centers, head start day care centers and schools
In Assembly Committee · Ways And Means · Sponsor Kenneth Zebrowski
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S418C
Title of bill
An act to amend the environmental conservation law, the social services law and the education law, in relation to integrated pest management
Purpose of the bill
The purpose of the bill is to require schools to promulgate an integrated pest management plan approved by the commissioner of the department of environmental conservation.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 of the bill amends article 33 of the environmental conservation by adding a new title 17. Section 33-1701 relates to the scope of integrated pest management plan which stipulates that the commissioner of the department of environmental conservation, in consultation with the commissioner of education and the commissioner of health, shall develop an integrated pest management plan for all child day care center, head start day care centers and schools. Section 33-1703 relates to the definition and requirements of an integrated pest management plan which include public access, guidelines for pesticide application when necessary. Section 33-1705 relates to the provision that allows individual day care centers, head start centers and schools to propose an integrated pest management plan that is suited for that individual center or school. The center or school may substitute their individual plan with the commissioner's plan upon approval from the commissioner.
Justification
An integrated pest management plan prescribes preventative actions for pest control in order to avert using dangerous pesticides. This bill will require schools to follow an effective and sensible approach to pest management that will not only benefit the children and teachers but the community and the environment by using preventative measures. pesticides are necessary in certain situations and their use is under strict guidelines in an integrated pest management plan. Integrated pest management plans are widely used throughout the United States and are essential that they be implemented in New York schools. This bill also allows for the schools to propose their own individual integrated pest management plan that best suits their center or school. All proposed plans must be approved by the commissioner of the DEC for compliance under the proposed title.
Prior legislative history
2007-2008 - S.736 Remained in the Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation 2005/2006 - S.218 Remained in the Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation
Fiscal implications for state
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become law.
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