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A00705 Summary:

BILL NOA00705
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORCarroll
 
COSPNSRLevenberg
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §19-0306-c, En Con L
 
Prohibits the sale of gasoline powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers in the state; requires the commissioner to promulgate rules to enact such prohibition by January 1, 2025.
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A00705 Actions:

BILL NOA00705
 
01/11/2023referred to environmental conservation
01/03/2024referred to environmental conservation
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A00705 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A705
 
SPONSOR: Carroll
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to prohibiting the sale of gasoline powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To ban gasoline powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section one amends the environmental conservation law to ban the sale of gasoline powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers by 2025. Section two provides the effective date.   JUSTIFICATION: Gasoline powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers are unnecessary and have a deleterious impact on the environment. A 2011 study by Edmunds found. that a two-stroke gasoline-powered leaf blower spewed Out more pollution than a 6,200-pound Ford F-150 SVT Raptor pickup truck. Lawn work can be done effectively using non gas-powered devices and this bill would have a positive impact on the environment.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: A.8450 2021-22   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: TBD.   EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediate
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A00705 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           705
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Environmental Conservation
 
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting the sale of gasoline powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new section 19-0306-c to read as follows:
     3  § 19-0306-c. Sale of certain gas-powered lawn care devices prohibited.
     4    The  commissioner  shall  promulgate rules and regulations which shall
     5  prohibit the sale of gasoline powered leaf blowers and  lawn  mowers  in
     6  the state by January first, two thousand twenty-five.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01099-01-3
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