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NY S08773

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/8/2026

Primary Sponsor

Peter Harckham

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Origin

Senate

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 pesticide use

  • Expands the definition of agricultural lands eligible for monarch butterfly habitat creation from "non-cropped" lands to "lands that are not in active production"

  • Authorizes partnerships to use residential areas, institutional landscapes, agricultural lands not in active production, transportation corridors, and conservation easements for creating, restoring, or enhancing monarch butterfly habitat

  • Takes effect on the same date as the 2025 Monarch Preservation Plan legislation (S. 3163/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

SUBSTITUTED BY A9436

1/21/2026

Committee Referrals

Rules1/8/2026

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