New York S 3163: Enacts the monarch preservation plan

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S03163 Summary:

BILL NOS03163 

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SAME ASSAME AS A01819

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SPONSORHOYLMAN-SIGAL

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §11-0541, En Con L

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Enacts the monarch preservation plan requiring the department of environmental conservation to take feasible actions to conserve monarch butterflies and the unique habitats they depend upon for successful migration.

Go to top S03163 Actions:

BILL NOS03163 

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01/24/2025REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

04/29/20251ST REPORT CAL.768

04/30/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/01/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/22/2025SUBSTITUTED BY A1819

&nbspA01819 AMEND= Simon

&nbsp01/14/2025referred to environmental conservation

&nbsp02/11/2025reported referred to ways and means

&nbsp04/01/2025reported referred to rules

&nbsp04/01/2025reported 

&nbsp04/01/2025rules report cal.124

&nbsp04/01/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.124

&nbsp04/01/2025passed assembly

&nbsp04/01/2025delivered to senate

&nbsp04/01/2025REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

&nbsp05/22/2025SUBSTITUTED FOR S3163

&nbsp05/22/20253RD READING CAL.768

&nbsp05/22/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp05/22/2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp12/08/2025delivered to governor

&nbsp12/12/2025signed chap.620

&nbsp12/12/2025approval memo.15

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3163

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 24, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
 when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conser-
 vation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
 enacting the monarch preservation plan

 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 "monarch preservation plan".
 3 § 2. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds that over the
 4 past several decades, the number of monarch butterflies in North America
 5 has steeply declined. The great migration of the eastern monarchs has
 6 been named a "threatened phenomenon" by the International Union for
 7 Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). As of 2014, the
 8 monarch population has declined from approximately one billion butterf-
 9 lies to 35 million, around 90% since 1990.
 10 Major threat to monarchs include habitat loss and fragmentation,
 11 changes in climate and extreme weather, pesticides, herbicides, and
 12 genetically modified crops, invasive species, disease and natural preda-
 13 tors.
 14 Actively restoring native milkweed and nectar plants, and other polli-
 15 nator habitat, and ensuring that key habitats are protected from
 16 destruction, are critical to ensuring the survival of monarch butterf-
 17 lies and can also help facilitate conservation of other essential polli-
 18 nators. Enhancing pollinator populations can result in improved poll-
 19 ination services for neighboring land, including agriculture and
 20 wildlife ecosystems.
 21 § 3. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a new
 22 section 11-0541 to read as follows:
 23 § 11-0541. Monarch preservation plan.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04729-01-5

 S. 3163 2

 1 Beginning within one year of the effective date of this section, the
 2 department shall take feasible actions to conserve monarch butterflies
 3 and the unique habitats they depend upon for successful migration. These
 4 actions may include, but are not limited to, habitat restoration on
 5 department and state owned lands, education programs, and voluntary
 6 agreements with private landowners. The department may partner with
 7 federal agencies, state agencies, nonprofit organizations, academic
 8 programs, private landowners, and other entities that undertake actions
 9 to conserve monarch butterflies and aid their successful migration. When
 10 undertaking actions to conserve monarch butterflies and their habitats
 11 pursuant to this secti