New York S 1059: Relates to medical expenditure amounts and establishes limitations upon real property tax levies in cities of over 1,000,000

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S01059 Summary:

BILL NOS01059A

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSERRANO

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COSPNSRADDABBO, HOYLMAN-SIGAL

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 37 Title 12 §§37-1201 - 37-1209, En Con L

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Prohibits the aerial and ground application of malathion and certain pyrethroid-based insecticides within one hundred feet of any school, day care center or park.

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BILL NOS01059A

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

05/08/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

05/08/2025PRINT NUMBER 1059A

05/13/20251ST REPORT CAL.1051

05/14/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/15/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

03/25/20261ST REPORT CAL.643

03/26/20262ND REPORT CAL.

03/30/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/05/2026COMMITTED TO RULES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 1059--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. SERRANO, ADDABBO, HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and
 ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
 Environmental Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended,
 ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
 prohibiting the aerial and ground application of malathion and certain
 pyrethroid-based insecticides

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

 1 Section 1. Article 37 of the environmental conservation law is amended
 2 by adding a new title 12 to read as follows:

 3 TITLE 12
 4 PROHIBITIONS ON THE USE OF MALATHION AND PYRETHROID-BASED INSECTICIDES
 5 Section 37-1201. Definitions.
 6 37-1203. Prohibition on the aerial and ground application of
 7 malathion and certain pyrethroid-based insecticides.
 8 37-1205. Controlling standard.
 9 37-1207. Emergency exception.
 10 37-1209. Regulations.
 11 § 37-1201. Definitions.
 12 For the purposes of this section:
 13 1. "Day care center" means all child day care centers and head start
 14 day care centers, as defined in section three hundred ninety of the
 15 social services law;
 16 2. "Park" means any state, county, or municipal park; and
 17 3. "School" means any public school district or private or parochial
 18 school or board of cooperative educational services.
 19 § 37-1203. Prohibition on the aerial and ground application of malathion
 20 and certain pyrethroid-based insecticides.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01636-02-5

 S. 1059--A 2

 1 No person, firm, partnership, association, limited liability company,
 2 corporation, municipality or government entity shall allow or implement
 3 the aerial or ground application of malathion or pyrethroid-based insec-
 4 ticides:
 5 1. within a park; or
 6 2. within one hundred feet of any school, day care center or park.
 7 § 37-1205. Controlling standard.
 8 If a more restrictive standard is set forth in the information
 9 contained on the label of the pesticide, or by other regulations,
 10 including county or local regulations, the more restrictive standard
 11 shall apply.
 12 § 37-1207. Emergency exception.
 13 1. Notwithstanding the prohibitions of subdivision two of this
 14 section, an application of the least toxic pyrethroid pesticide avail-
 15 able, as determined by the department, may be made in the case of an
 16 emergency. Determination of an emergency shall be made by the county
 17 health department, or for a county not having a health department such
 18 authority as the county legislature shall designate, the commissioner of
 19 health or their designee, the commissioner of environmental conservation
 20 or their designee, or, in the case of a public school, the school board.
 21 2. Any such application shall be:
 22 (a) conducted at a time that minimizes exposure to children;
 23 (b) preceded by adequate public notice; and
 24 (c) accompanied by appropriate signage.
 25 § 37-1209. Regulati