New York S 10393: Enacts the New York mosquito surveillance act

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S10393 Summary:

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Directs the commissioner of environmental conservation to establish a New York mosquito surveillance task force to study and assess the future of mosquito surveillance in the state; directs a plan to be submitted after one year of effectiveness; directs counties to develop and submit plans of action to begin, continue, or expand mosquito surveillance.

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05/15/2026REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 10393

 IN SENATE

 May 15, 2026
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 Introduced by Sen. ASHBY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to enact the "New York mosquito surveillance act"

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "New York mosquito surveillance act".
 3 § 2. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature finds that it is
 4 in the public interest to have a comprehensive mosquito surveillance
 5 program in the state, rather than a piece-meal approach. In order to
 6 best create the program, the legislature first wants to establish a
 7 year-long task force to study, evaluate and develop budgeting and other
 8 recommendations relating to specific actionable measures needed to
 9 implement integrated state-wide mosquito surveillance.
 10 § 3. New York mosquito surveillance task force. 1. The commissioner of
 11 environmental conservation, in coordination with the commissioner of
 12 health, is hereby authorized to establish the New York mosquito surveil-
 13 lance task force to study and assess the future of mosquito surveillance
 14 in the state.
 15 2. Such task force shall consist of thirteen members with demonstrated
 16 expertise in issues relating to the work of the task force. The members
 17 of the task force shall be appointed as follows:
 18 (a) seven members shall be appointed by the governor. The seven
 19 members appointed by the governor shall include: the commissioner of
 20 health, or their designee; the commissioner of environmental conserva-
 21 tion, or their designee; the commissioner of agriculture and markets, or
 22 their designee; the chancellor of the state university of New York, or
 23 their designee; the commissioner of the New York city department of
 24 health, or their designee; the director of the Wadsworth center, or
 25 their designee; and a representative from the state university of New
 26 York's college of environmental science and forestry;
 27 (b) two members shall be appointed by the temporary president of the
 28 senate;
 29 (c) two members shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15914-01-6

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 1 (d) one member shall be appointed by the senate minority leader; and
 2 (e) one member shall be appointed by the assembly minority leader.
 3 3. The task force shall:
 4 (a) study and report on current mosquito surveillance locations
 5 throughout the state, including but not limited to their costs, methods
 6 of surveillance, length of monitoring season in relation to transmission
 7 season, the number of traps used per site, types of traps and bait,
 8 which habitats are being targeted, which species of mosquitoes are being
 9 targeted and which are captured, trap counts, and collection schedule;
 10 (b) identify current best practices in mosquito surveillance that are
 11 being executed in the state, as well as the gaps in the current surveil-
 12 lance;
 13 (c) review current data reporting methods for mosquito monitoring and
 14 laboratory results and identify best practices or make recommendations
 15 for improvement;
 16 (d) document other surveillance models that work well in other states
 17 and evaluate if New York state should adopt such models;
 18 (e) explore