Assembly Bill A7017A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Enacts the monarch preservation plan

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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A7017 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1857
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §11-0541, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S9295

2023-A7017 - Summary

Enacts the monarch preservation plan requiring the department of environmental conservation to take feasible actions to conserve monarch butterflies and the unique habitats they depend upon for successful migration.

2023-A7017 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7017
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   enacting the monarch preservation plan
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited  as  the  "monarch
 preservation plan".
   §  2. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds that over the
 past several decades, the number of monarch butterflies in North America
 has steeply declined. The great migration of the  eastern  monarchs  has
 been  named  a  "threatened  phenomenon"  by the International Union for
 Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).  As  of  2014,  the
 monarch  population has declined from approximately one billion butterf-
 lies to 35 million, around 90% since 1990.
   Major threat to  monarchs  include  habitat  loss  and  fragmentation,
 changes  in  climate  and  extreme  weather, pesticides, herbicides, and
 genetically modified crops, invasive species, disease and natural preda-
 tors.
   Actively restoring native milkweed and nectar plants, and other polli-
 nator habitat,  and  ensuring  that  key  habitats  are  protected  from
 destruction,  are  critical to ensuring the survival of monarch butterf-
 lies and can also help facilitate conservation of other essential polli-
 nators.  Enhancing pollinator populations can result in  improved  poll-
 ination   services  for  neighboring  land,  including  agriculture  and
 wildlife ecosystems.
   § 3. The environmental conservation law is amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 11-0541 to read as follows:
 § 11-0541. MONARCH PRESERVATION PLAN.
   1.  WITHIN ONE YEAR OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION, THE DEPART-
 MENT SHALL TAKE FEASIBLE ACTIONS TO CONSERVE MONARCH BUTTERFLIES AND THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05049-01-3
              

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2023-A7017A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1857
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §11-0541, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S9295

2023-A7017A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the monarch preservation plan requiring the department of environmental conservation to take feasible actions to conserve monarch butterflies and the unique habitats they depend upon for successful migration.

2023-A7017A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7017--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMON,  THIELE,  GUNTHER,  ZINERMAN, SAYEGH,
   L. ROSENTHAL, McDONOUGH, K. BROWN -- read once  and  referred  to  the
   Committee  on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation in accordance with Assembly Rule  3,
   sec.  2  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   enacting the monarch preservation plan
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "monarch preservation plan".
   §  2. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds that over the
 past several decades, the number of monarch butterflies in North America
 has steeply declined. The great migration of the  eastern  monarchs  has
 been  named  a  "threatened  phenomenon"  by the International Union for
 Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).  As  of  2014,  the
 monarch  population has declined from approximately one billion butterf-
 lies to 35 million, around 90% since 1990.
   Major threat to  monarchs  include  habitat  loss  and  fragmentation,
 changes  in  climate  and  extreme  weather, pesticides, herbicides, and
 genetically modified crops, invasive species, disease and natural preda-
 tors.
   Actively restoring native milkweed and nectar plants, and other polli-
 nator habitat,  and  ensuring  that  key  habitats  are  protected  from
 destruction,  are  critical to ensuring the survival of monarch butterf-
 lies and can also help facilitate conservation of other essential polli-
 nators.  Enhancing pollinator populations can result in  improved  poll-
 ination   services  for  neighboring  land,  including  agriculture  and
 wildlife ecosystems.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05049-02-4
 A. 7017--A                          2
              

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