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Senate Bill S5039

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Changes the definition of the word "weed"

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2025-S5039 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §33-0101, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S6014
2023-2024: S4310

2025-S5039 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Changes the definition of the word "weed" to include certain types of plants and exclude those that are endangered or indigenous to this state.

2025-S5039 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5039 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5039
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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
   changing the definition of the word "weed"
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  45  of  section 33-0101 of the environmental
 conservation law, as added by chapter 685 of the laws  of  1978  and  as
 renumbered  by  chapter  612  of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as
 follows:
   45. "Weed" means any plant [which  grows  where  not  wanted]  SPECIES
 DESIGNATED AS NOXIOUS, HARMFUL, EXOTIC, INVASIVE, INJURIOUS OR POISONOUS
 PURSUANT  TO  STATE OR FEDERAL LAW, AND SHALL NOT INCLUDE ANY ENDANGERED
 SPECIES OR ANY PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO THIS STATE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09699-01-5

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