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Bill # & Full Language Link |
Memo |
Bill Description |
Date |
| A 6930 / S 5983 | Opposition Memo | Prohibits the application of pesticides to certain local freshwater wetlands for local governments that have implemented a freshwater wetlands protection law; provides that any local law or ordinance adopted pursuant to this section shall take effect on the first day of January after it shall have been adopted. | May 12, 2025 |
| A 5832-A/S 4574-A | Opposition Memo | Enacts the "PFAS discharge disclosure act"; requires certain SPDES permit holders to conduct PFAS monitoring and disclose the results from such monitoring. | March 31, 2025 |
| A 5832-B/S 4574-B | Opposition Memo | Enacts the "PFAS discharge disclosure act"; requires certain SPDES permit holders to conduct PFAS monitoring and disclose the results from such monitoring. | April 22, 2025 |
| S4408 | Opposition Memo | Relates to agreements, such as leases or easements, related to renewable energy development rights on reforestation areas. | May 12, 2025 |
| A8673 / S7203 | Opposition Memo | Enacts the tropical rainforest economic & environmental sustainability act requiring that companies contracting with the state do not contribute to tropical forest degradation or deforestation directly or through their supply chains; establishes the supply chain transparency assistance program to assist small and medium-sized businesses and minority and women-owned businesses in achieving compliant supply chains. | May 29, 2025 |
| A3527 / S3412 | Opposition Memo | Provides for the regulation of indoor and outdoor worksites with temperature protection standards and education, training and reporting requirements to ensure that employers provide safe conditions for their employees. | May 22, 2025 |
| A1252-S4710 | Opposition Memo | Requires forest management plans, subject to the approval of the department of environmental conservation, for certain lands subject to a conservation easement purchased by the state; forbids clearcutting on such lands without such forest management plan; increases the jurisdiction of the Adirondack park agency over clearcutting. | September 21, 2025 |
| A7550-S5603 | Opposition Memo | Authorizes state assistance to municipalities containing exempt privately owned forest lands; expands categories of lands eligible for certain property tax exemptions as forest lands; authorizes tax exemptions for certain conservation easement tracts; provides for violations of certain provisions relating to filing for tax exemptions of forest lands. | May 18, 2026 |