STATE OF NEW YORK
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6899
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 25, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
prohibiting the sale and distribution of glyphosate and products
containing glyphosate
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 37-0115 to read as follows:
3 § 37-0115. Prohibition of glyphosate and products containing glyphosate.
4 1. No person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability compa-
5 ny or corporation shall distribute, sell, offer for sale or use glypho-
6 sate or any products containing glyphosate within New York state.
7 2. For the purposes of this section, glyphosate shall mean a synthetic
8 compound that is a non-selective systemic herbicide, also known as
9 N-(phosphonomethyl) glycerine with a chemical formula of C3H8NO5P.
10 3. The department is authorized to promulgate such rules and regu-
11 lations as it shall deem necessary to implement the provisions of this
12 section.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
14 law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
15 rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its
16 effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on
17 or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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