Senate Bill S5983

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the application of pesticides to certain local freshwater wetlands

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  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-S5983 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §24-0513, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8378
2023-2024: S5957, S9379

2025-S5983 - Summary

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.

2025-S5983 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5983 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5983
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- 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
   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:
 
   Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
 new section 24-0513 to read as follows:
 § 24-0513. LOCAL FRESHWATER WETLANDS PESTICIDE PROHIBITION.
   1. A LOCAL GOVERNMENT  THAT  HAS  IMPLEMENTED  A  FRESHWATER  WETLANDS
 PROTECTION  LAW  OR ORDINANCE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 24-0501 OF THIS
 TITLE MAY ADOPT A LOCAL LAW OR ORDINANCE TO PROHIBIT THE APPLICATION  OF
 PESTICIDES  TO  WETLANDS  IT REGULATES; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT ANY SUCH
 LAW OR ORDINANCE SHALL  NOT  PROHIBIT  PESTICIDE  APPLICATIONS  FOR  THE
 CONTROL OF INVASIVE SPECIES IDENTIFIED PURSUANT TO TITLE 17 OF ARTICLE 9
 OF  THIS CHAPTER, PESTS OF SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC HEALTH IMPORTANCE, NOXIOUS
 WEEDS DESIGNATED BY THE DEPARTMENT AS INJURIOUS TO ECOSYSTEM HEALTH,  OR
 FOR THE PROTECTION OF CRITICAL NATIVE PLANT SPECIES.
   2.  (A)  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS  SECTION  SHALL APPLY ONLY TO THOSE
 WETLANDS WHICH ARE HYDROLOGICALLY CONNECTED TO ANY RESERVOIR,  RESERVOIR
 STEM, CLASS A WATERWAY OR OTHER SOURCE OF PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY.
   (B)  THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED TO PROHIBIT
 OR LIMIT THE USE OR APPLICATION OF PESTICIDES IN CONNECTION WITH COMMER-
 CIAL AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES NOR TO CONTRADICT ANY OTHER  PROVISIONS  OF
 THIS CHAPTER RELATING TO SUCH USE.
   3.  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.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10703-01-5

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2025-S5983A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §24-0513, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8378
2023-2024: S5957, S9379

2025-S5983A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2025-S5983A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5983A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5983--A
     Cal. No. 520
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conser-
   vation -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and
   second  report,  ordered  to  a  third  reading,  amended  and ordered
   reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
 
 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:
 
   Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
 new section 24-0513 to read as follows:
 § 24-0513. LOCAL FRESHWATER WETLANDS PESTICIDE PROHIBITION.
   1. A LOCAL GOVERNMENT  THAT  HAS  IMPLEMENTED  A  FRESHWATER  WETLANDS
 PROTECTION  LAW  OR ORDINANCE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 24-0501 OF THIS
 TITLE MAY ADOPT A LOCAL LAW OR ORDINANCE TO PROHIBIT THE APPLICATION  OF
 PESTICIDES  TO  WETLANDS  IT REGULATES; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT ANY SUCH
 LAW OR ORDINANCE SHALL  NOT  PROHIBIT  PESTICIDE  APPLICATIONS  FOR  THE
 CONTROL OF INVASIVE SPECIES IDENTIFIED PURSUANT TO TITLE 17 OF ARTICLE 9
 OF  THIS CHAPTER, PESTS OF SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC HEALTH IMPORTANCE, NOXIOUS
 WEEDS DESIGNATED BY THE DEPARTMENT AS INJURIOUS TO ECOSYSTEM HEALTH,  OR
 FOR THE PROTECTION OF CRITICAL NATIVE PLANT SPECIES.
   2.  (A)  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS  SECTION  SHALL APPLY ONLY TO THOSE
 WETLANDS WHICH ARE HYDROLOGICALLY CONNECTED TO ANY RESERVOIR,  RESERVOIR
 STEM, CLASS A WATERWAY OR OTHER SOURCE OF PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY.
   (B)  THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT BE CONSTRUED TO PROHIBIT
 OR LIMIT THE USE OR APPLICATION OF PESTICIDES USED IN FARM OPERATIONS AS
 DEFINED IN SECTION THREE HUNDRED ONE OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW.
   3. 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.

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