Directs the department of environmental conservation to develop and implement a tree planting pilot program in the ten zip codes in the state with the highest incidence of asthma.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5614
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 18, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, SHIMSKY, K. BROWN -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT in relation to directing the department of environmental conser-
vation to develop and implement a tree planting pilot program in the
ten zip codes in the state with the highest incidence of asthma; and
making an appropriation therefor
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Within amounts appropriated therefor, the department of
2 environmental conservation shall develop and implement a tree planting
3 pilot program in the state. The department of environmental conservation
4 shall consult with the department of health to determine the ten zip
5 codes in the state with the highest incidence of asthma. The department
6 of environmental conservation, in consultation with local agencies,
7 shall plant trees in such zip codes to ameliorate the environmental
8 conditions in those areas. Such pilot program shall continue for a peri-
9 od of five years after the effective date of this act. At the end of
10 such period, the department of environmental conservation, in consulta-
11 tion with the department of health, shall report to the governor, the
12 temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly on the
13 results of such pilot program and any recommendations for legislative
14 action.
15 § 2. The sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000), or so much thereof
16 as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the department of envi-
17 ronmental conservation from the general fund, for implementation of the
18 tree planting pilot program required by section one of this act.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2025.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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