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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6966
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     January 6, 2020
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. METZGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to the  use
          of  pesticides  to  protect  livestock and farm property against Asian
          longhorned ticks
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 50 of section 16 of the agriculture and markets
     2  law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the agriculture
     3  and markets law relating to requiring the preparation of recommendations
     4  for  best  practices in treating livestock and farm properties for Asian
     5  longhorned tick treatment, prevention, and management,  as  proposed  in
     6  legislative  bills  numbers S. 4876-A and A. 8098, is amended to read as
     7  follows:
     8    50. Develop, in consultation with the commissioner of  the  department
     9  of  health  and  the New York state land grant university, best-practice
    10  recommendations for treatment, prevention and  management  of  livestock
    11  and farm property to protect against Asian longhorned ticks. Such recom-
    12  mendations  shall  be  based upon scientific data and shall include, but
    13  not be limited to, the use of landscape techniques  demonstrated  to  be
    14  safe  for  livestock,  people,  pets  and  the  environment,  methods to
    15  discourage rodent activity, and, [as  a  method  of  last  resort,]  the
    16  effective  use  of [effective active ingredients] pesticides, as defined
    17  in subdivision [one] thirty-five of section 33-0101 of the environmental
    18  conservation law, including usage information and any label warnings  or
    19  caution  statements.  The commissioner, in consultation with the depart-
    20  ment of environmental conservation and the New  York  state  land  grant
    21  university, shall develop and distribute to farmers information on Asian
    22  longhorned tick treatment, management, and prevention.  Such information
    23  and  recommendations  shall  also  be made available on the department's
    24  website.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    26  manner  as  a  chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the agriculture and
    27  markets law relating to requiring the preparation of recommendations for
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 6966                             2
 
     1  best practices in treating livestock and farm properties for Asian long-
     2  horned tick treatment, prevention, and management, as proposed in legis-
     3  lative bills numbers S. 4876-A and A. 8098, takes effect.