What's happening
This bill requires New York to develop a model pesticide policy recommending physical, biological, and integrated pest management techniques.
Why it matters
Promotes safer pest control. By requiring recommendations for physical, biological, and mechanical methods, the bill encourages alternatives to chemical pesticides, which can benefit public health and reduce environmental contamination.
Supports integrated pest management (IPM). Mandating IPM techniques means the model policy will focus on long-term, sustainable pest control strategies, potentially reducing pesticide resistance and promoting ecosystem balance.
Involves multiple agencies. The collaboration between the Departments of Environmental Conservation, Education, and Health highlights the bill’s broad impact—affecting not just environmental policy, but also public health and educational practices, such as how schools manage pests.
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Create State Pesticide Policy
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Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3465
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the development of a model pesticide policy
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 33-0303 of the environmental conservation law is amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
8. The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of education and the commissioner of health, shall develop a model pesticide policy. Such policy shall include recommendations for physical, biological and mechanical control methods as well as integrated pest management techniques.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01588-01-9
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