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NY A09436

Bill

Status

Passed

2/13/2026

Primary Sponsor

Jo Simon

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Origin

Assembly

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Amends the monarch preservation plan to shift focus from "controlling" pest management practices to "identifying alternatives to" practices harmful to monarch butterflies, specifically including alternatives to harmful pesticides

  • Expands eligible lands for monarch butterfly habitat creation, restoration, or enhancement by changing language from agricultural "non-cropped" lands to agricultural lands "not in active production"

  • Authorizes use of residential areas, institutional landscaped areas, transportation corridors, and conservation easements for monarch butterfly habitat partnerships

  • Takes effect on the same date as the parent 2025 monarch preservation plan legislation (S. 3163 and A. 1819)

Legislative Description

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.

Last Action

signed chap.7

2/13/2026

Committee Referrals

Rules1/13/2026
Rules1/12/2026
Environmental Conservation1/6/2026

Full Bill Text

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