S9635 • 2025

Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from gas or oil wells, pools, or fields on any highway

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Sponsor: Pete Harckham
Last action: 2026-06-03
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from gas or oil wells, pools, or fields on any highway

Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from gas or oil wells, pools, or fields on any highway Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from gas or oil wells, pools, or fields on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to de-icing or dust suppression.

What This Bill Does

Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from gas or oil wells, pools, or fields on any highway Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from gas or oil wells, pools, or fields on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to de-icing or dust suppression.

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Bill History

2026-06-03 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-06-03 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-06-03 Assembly
REFERRED TO CODES
2026-04-27 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-04-22 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-04-21 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.740
2026-03-31 Senate
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Official Summary Text

Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from gas or oil wells, pools, or fields on any highway
Prohibits the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from gas or oil wells, pools, or fields on any highway for any purpose including but not limited to de-icing or dust suppression.

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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                                          9635

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     March 31, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting  the use of drilling fluids, brine and flowback water from
          gas or oil wells, pools, or fields on any highway

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  23-0305 of the environmental conservation law is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 16 to read as follows:
     3    16. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROHIBIT THE USE OF DRILLING  FLUIDS,  BRINE,
     4  AND  FLOWBACK WATER FROM GAS OR OIL WELLS, POOLS, OR FIELDS ON ANY HIGH-
     5  WAY, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOURTEEN OF SECTION TWO OF THE  TRANSPOR-
     6  TATION LAW, FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO USE FOR DE-IC-
     7  ING, DUST SUPPRESSION OR ANY OTHER USE.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06152-06-6