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History
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 60–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.71
- Referred to consumer protection
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
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- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.920
- Referred to consumer protection
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Prohibits the sale of carolina fanwort
In Assembly Committee · Environmental Conservation · Sponsor Fred Thiele
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S4925
Title of bill
An act to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the sale of Carolina fanwort
Purpose
Prohibits the sale of Carolina fanwort.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 - Prohibits the sale of Carolina fanwort, a weedy, invasive plant which is known scientifically as cambomba caroliniana grey.
Section 2 - Establishes a punishment of not more than $1,000 for the first offense and not more than $5,000 for a second offense.
Justification
The Cambomba weed is an invasive plant which grows in slow moving or stagnant water. This results in a lack of oxygen which can kill all plant and animal life in this water due to no sunlight or oxygen.
Legislative history
2009-10: S.3466 2007-08: S.7678
Fiscal implications
None to the state.
Effective date
Immediately.
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