S7651 • 2025

Requires the commissioner of labor to develop instructional tools and materials for occupations at high-risk of tick exposures

Agriculture Labor

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Jeremy Cooney
Last action: 2026-05-28
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the commissioner of labor to develop instructional tools and materials for occupations at high-risk of tick exposures

Requires the commissioner of labor to develop instructional tools and materials for occupations at high-risk of tick exposures Requires the commissioner of labor, in consultation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets, commissioner of health and the commissioner of environmental conservation, to develop instructional tools and materials for occupations at high-risk of tick exposures; requires such materials to provide information on the identification of ticks and tick removal, and protection from tick bites; requires such materials to be available to high-risk employers and employees at no charge.

What This Bill Does

Requires the commissioner of labor to develop instructional tools and materials for occupations at high-risk of tick exposures Requires the commissioner of labor, in consultation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets, commissioner of health and the commissioner of environmental conservation, to develop instructional tools and materials for occupations at high-risk of tick exposures; requires such materials to provide information on the identification of ticks and tick removal, and protection from tick bites; requires such materials to be available to high-risk employers and employees at no charge.

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Bill History

2026-05-28 Senate
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO LABOR
2026-05-28 Senate
PRINT NUMBER 7651A
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO LABOR
2025-04-25 Senate
REFERRED TO LABOR

Official Summary Text

Requires the commissioner of labor to develop instructional tools and materials for occupations at high-risk of tick exposures
Requires the commissioner of labor, in consultation with the commissioner of agriculture and markets, commissioner of health and the commissioner of environmental conservation, to develop instructional tools and materials for occupations at high-risk of tick exposures; requires such materials to provide information on the identification of ticks and tick removal, and protection from tick bites; requires such materials to be available to high-risk employers and employees at no charge.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          7651

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     April 25, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring the commissioner
          of labor to develop instructional tools and materials  for  industries
          at high-risk for occupational tick exposures

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Section 21 of the labor law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 17 to read as follows:
     3    17.  THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH
     4  AND  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF  ENVIRONMENTAL  CONSERVATION,  SHALL  DEVELOP
     5  INSTRUCTIONAL  TOOLS AND MATERIALS FOR INDUSTRIES AT HIGH-RISK FOR OCCU-
     6  PATIONAL TICK EXPOSURES INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO,  AGRICULTURE,
     7  LANDSCAPING,  AND  FORESTRY,  TO  ASSIST  IN THE EDUCATION AND AWARENESS
     8  PROGRAM TO PROTECT EMPLOYEES FROM LYME DISEASE AND TICK-BORNE INFECTIONS
     9  ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION SIXTEEN-B OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS
    10  LAW, AND FOR FIRST RESPONDERS,  ROAD  CREWS,  AND  UTILITY  CREWS.  SUCH
    11  INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS AND MATERIALS SHALL PROVIDE INFORMATION ON THE IDEN-
    12  TIFICATION OF TICKS, BEST PRACTICES TO PROVIDE PROTECTION FROM TICKS AND
    13  RECOMMENDED  PROCEDURES  FOR SAFE TICK REMOVAL. SUCH INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS
    14  AND  MATERIALS  MAY  INCLUDE,  BUT  NEED  NOT  BE  LIMITED   TO,   VIDEO
    15  PRODUCTIONS,  PAMPHLETS,  AND  DEMONSTRATION  PROGRAMS TO ILLUSTRATE THE
    16  VARIOUS SIZES OF TICKS BEFORE AND AFTER THEY  HAVE  ENGORGED  TO  ASSIST
    17  WITH  THE  IDENTIFICATION  OF  TICKS AND THE REACTION ON THE SKIN, FOR A
    18  VARIETY OF SKIN TONES, THAT MAY OCCUR AS A RESULT OF A  TICK  BITE,  AND
    19  PROTECTION  AGAINST  TICK  BITES. SUCH INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS AND MATERIALS
    20  SHALL BE MADE  AVAILABLE  TO  HIGH-RISK  EMPLOYERS  AND  EMPLOYEES  UPON
    21  REQUEST AT NO CHARGE AND SHALL BE REVIEWED AND UPDATED ANNUALLY.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11580-03-5