New York A 6930: Prohibits the application of pesticides to certain local freshwater wetlands

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A06930 Summary:

BILL NOA06930 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05983-A

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SPONSORBurdick

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COSPNSRSeawright, Colton, Rosenthal, Otis

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §24-0513, En Con L

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Prohibits the application of pesticides to certain local freshwater wetlands for local governments that have implemented a freshwater wetlands protection law; provides that any local law or ordinance adopted pursuant to this section shall take effect on the first day of January after it shall have been adopted.

Go to top A06930 Actions:

BILL NOA06930 

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03/18/2025referred to environmental conservation

05/20/2025reported referred to codes

05/28/2025reported referred to rules

05/29/2025reported 

05/29/2025rules report cal.333

05/29/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.333

05/29/2025substituted by s5983a

&nbspS05983 AMEND=A HARCKHAM

&nbsp03/04/2025REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

&nbsp03/11/20251ST REPORT CAL.520

&nbsp03/12/20252ND REPORT CAL.

&nbsp03/13/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

&nbsp03/17/2025AMENDED ON THIRD READING 5983A

&nbsp05/12/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp05/12/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp05/12/2025referred to environmental conservation

&nbsp05/29/2025substituted for a6930

&nbsp05/29/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.333

&nbsp06/09/2025passed assembly

&nbsp06/09/2025returned to senate

&nbsp12/01/2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp12/05/2025VETOED MEMO.92

Go to topA06930 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION Chair:Glick 
DATE:05/20/2025AYE/NAY:23/7 Action: Favorable refer to committee Codes GlickAyeSimpsonNay

ColtonAyeSmullenNay

OtisAyeTagueNay

WilliamsAyeManktelowNay

BarrettAyeBrownAye

CarrollAyeLemondesNay

EpsteinAyeSlaterAye

McMahonAyeBaileyNay

BurdickAyeSempolinskiNay

LunsfordAye

KellesAye

Gonzalez-RojasAye

SeptimoAye

LeeAye

LevenbergAye

SimoneAye

AndersonAye

ConradAye

LasherAye

SchiavoniAye

KassayAye

Committee:CODES Chair:Dinowitz 
DATE:05/28/2025AYE/NAY:15/6 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules DinowitzAyeMorinelloNay

CookAyeReillyNay

SimonAyeMikulinNay

WeprinAyeTannousisNay

HevesiAyeAngelinoNay

SeawrightAyeMolitorNay

RosenthalAye

WalkerAye

VanelAye

CruzAye

EpsteinAye

BoresAye

ReyesAye

CunninghamAbsent

RomeroAye

AlvarezAye

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:05/29/2025AYE/NAY:18/9 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedBarclayNay

PretlowAyeHawleyNay

CookAyeBlankenbushNay

GlickAyeRaNay

DinowitzAyeBrabenecNay

ColtonAyePalmesanoNay

MagnarelliAyeReillyNay

PaulinAyeSmithNay

Peoples-StokesAyeJensenNay

BenedettoAye

LavineExcused

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaExcused

HyndmanAye

RozicExcused

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA06930 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA06930 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 6930

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 18, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. BURDICK, SEAWRIGHT, COLTON, ROSENTHAL, OTIS --
 read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
 prohibiting the application of pesticides to certain local freshwater
 wetlands

 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 24-0513 to read as follows:
 3 § 24-0513. Local freshwater wetlands pesticide prohibition.
 4 1. A local government that has implemented a freshwater wetlands
 5 protection law or ordinance in accordance with section 24-0501 of this
 6 title may adopt a local law or ordinance to prohibit the application of
 7 pesticides to wetlands it regulates; provided, however, that any such
 8 law or ordinance shall not prohibit pesticide applications for the
 9 control of invasive species identified pursuant to title 17 of article 9
 10 of this chapter, pests of significant public health importance, noxious
 11 weeds designated by the department as injurious to ecosystem health, or
 12 for the protection of critical native plant species.
 13 2. (a) The provisions of this section shall apply only to those
 14 wetla