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Senate Bill S8773

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to finding alternatives to the use of pesticides in the monarch preservation plan

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2025-S8773 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9436
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0541, En Con L (as proposed in S.3163 & A.1819)
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A7017

2025-S8773 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to finding alternatives to the use of pesticides in the monarch preservation plan and allowing agricultural lands that are not in active production be used to enhance the monarch butterfly habitat.

2025-S8773 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8773 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8773
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 8, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   alternatives  for  the  use  of pesticides in the monarch preservation
   plan
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivisions  3  and 5 of section 11-0541 of the environ-
 mental conservation law, as added by a  chapter  of  the  laws  of  2025
 amending  the  environmental  conservation  law relating to enacting the
 monarch preservation plan, as proposed in legislative bills  numbers  S.
 3163 and A. 1819, are amended to read as follows:
   3. [controlling] IDENTIFYING ALTERNATIVES TO pest management practices
 that may be harmful to monarch butterflies, their food or their habitat,
 INCLUDING  BUT NOT LIMITED TO ALTERNATIVES TO THE USE OF PESTICIDES THAT
 MAY CAUSE SUCH HARM;
   5. increasing the number of partnerships and making the most of  part-
 nerships to use residential and institutional landscaped areas, agricul-
 tural [non-cropped] lands THAT ARE NOT IN ACTIVE PRODUCTION, transporta-
 tion  corridors,  and  conservation  easements  to  create,  restore, or
 enhance monarch butterfly habitat.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a  chapter  of  the  laws of 2025 amending the environmental
 conservation law relating to enacting the monarch preservation plan,  as
 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 3163 and A. 1819, takes effect.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04729-02-6

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