A 9478 — Establishes a New York native plants designation; repealer

Congress · introduced 2026-01-07

Directs the department of agriculture and markets, in cooperation with the department of environmental conservation, to establish standards for designation of native plants, to develop a list of native plants that indicates and differentiates between native plants that are indigenous to New York state and those that are native plants found elsewhere in the United States that are likely to shift or expand their range into NY, to establish a New York native plant designation, and to offer seals or logos identifying native plants as grown in New York state; defines "native plants".

Latest action: 2026-02-13 — SIGNED_BY_GOV

Action timeline

2026-01-07 · assembly — REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE
2026-01-21 · assembly — REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
2026-01-21 · assembly — REPORTED
2026-01-21 · assembly — RULES REPORT CAL.48
2026-01-21 · assembly — ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.48
2026-01-21 · assembly — PASSED ASSEMBLY
2026-01-21 · assembly — DELIVERED TO SENATE
2026-01-21 · senate — REFERRED TO RULES
2026-01-29 · senate — SUBSTITUTED FOR S8779
2026-01-29 · senate — 3RD READING CAL.72
2026-01-29 · senate — PASSED SENATE
2026-01-29 · senate — RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-02-13 · assembly — DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
2026-02-13 · assembly — SIGNED CHAP.24

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Introduced · 2026-01-07 — HTML · Text

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Inbound (1)

date	from	type	amount	role	source
2026-01-07	Anna Kelles	sponsor_of_bill	—	sponsor	sponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#	Member	Role	Speeches	Voted	Score
1	Anna Kelles (—, state_lower NY-125)	sponsor	0	—	5

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

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2026-01-07 · sponsored by Anna Kelles (sponsor) · sponsorship

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