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NY S09069
Bill
Status
4/16/2024
Primary Sponsor
Peter Harckham
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AI Summary
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Prohibits the sale, offer for sale, distribution, or use of pesticides containing restricted SGARs (second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides) or FGARs (first-generation anticoagulant rodenticides) unless the purchaser holds a valid purchase permit or certification identification card.
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Restricts use of pesticides containing SGARs or FGARs within 500 feet of wildlife habitat areas, including parks, wetlands, nature reserves, and wildlife refuges managed by state or regional agencies.
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Defines restricted active ingredients: SGARs include brodifacoum, bromadiolone, difenacoum, and difethialone; FGARs include diphacinone, warfarin, and chlorophacinone.
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Authorizes the environmental conservation commissioner, in consultation with the agriculture and markets commissioner, to promulgate rules allowing certified pesticide applicators to use these chemicals where use would not significantly harm non-target wildlife.
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Takes effect 90 days after becoming law.
Legislative Description
Enacts the restriction of anticoagulant pesticide transactions for online and retail stores act to prohibit any person from selling, offering for sale or use, or distributing within the state, any second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide; prohibits the use of either a first-generation anticoagulant rodenticide or a second-generation anticoagulant rodenticide within five hundred feet of a wildlife habitat area.
Last Action
COMMITTED TO RULES
6/7/2024