Amd §11-0541, En Con L (as proposed in S.3163 & A.1819)
Relates to finding alternatives to the use of pesticides in the monarch preservation plan and allowing agricultural lands that are not in active production be used to enhance the monarch butterfly habitat.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9436
IN ASSEMBLY
January 6, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
alternatives for the use of pesticides in the monarch preservation
plan
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 5 of section 11-0541 of the environ-
2 mental conservation law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2025
3 amending the environmental conservation law relating to enacting the
4 monarch preservation plan, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
5 3163 and A. 1819, are amended to read as follows:
6 3. [controlling] identifying alternatives to pest management practices
7 that may be harmful to monarch butterflies, their food or their habitat,
8 including but not limited to alternatives to the use of pesticides that
9 may cause such harm;
10 5. increasing the number of partnerships and making the most of part-
11 nerships to use residential and institutional landscaped areas, agricul-
12 tural [non-cropped] lands that are not in active production, transporta-
13 tion corridors, and conservation easements to create, restore, or
14 enhance monarch butterfly habitat.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
16 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the environmental
17 conservation law relating to enacting the monarch preservation plan, as
18 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 3163 and A. 1819, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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