New York S 1733: Creates a program to assist municipalities with water quality improvement of water bodies within the municipality managed by lake associations

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S01733 Summary:

BILL NOS01733 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02627

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SPONSORHARCKHAM

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COSPNSRHELMING, JACKSON, MAY, MAYER, ROLISON, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §15-0519, En Con L

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Creates a program to assist municipalities with water quality improvement of water bodies within the municipality managed by lake associations.

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BILL NOS01733 

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01/13/2025REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

01/21/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

04/22/2025COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

04/22/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.687

04/22/2025PASSED SENATE

04/22/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

04/22/2025referred to environmental conservation

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

02/24/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1733

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 13, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, HELMING, MAY, MAYER, ROLISON -- read twice
 and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
 on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
 creating a program to assist local municipalities with water quality
 improvement of water bodies managed by lake associations

 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 15-0519 to read as follows:
 3 § 15-0519. Water quality improvement; lake associations.
 4 1. Subject to an appropriation for such purpose, the department shall,
 5 in consultation with the environmental facilities corporation, create a
 6 program to assist municipalities to improve the water quality in water
 7 bodies managed by lake associations located within such municipality.
 8 The program shall, in cooperation with municipalities at the request of
 9 the lake association:
 10 a. identify any water quality concerns at a water body managed by a
 11 lake association within the municipality;
 12 b. determine the most effective way to remediate any water quality
 13 concerns; and
 14 c. assist with determining best practices to improve and maintain
 15 water quality of water bodies managed by lake associations within the
 16 municipality.
 17 2. The department shall establish a grant program to assist munici-
 18 palities with remedial actions to address the water quality of water
 19 bodies within the municipality managed by lake associations.
 20 3. The department is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to
 21 implement this section.
 22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 23 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 24 ment, and/or repeal of any rules and regulations necessary to implement
 25 the provisions of this act on its effective date are authorized to be
 26 made and completed on or before such effective date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05488-01-5

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