---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to bee health and the beekeeping industry; repealer"
description: "Establishes the apiary industry advisory committee; defines terms; requires the commissioner of agriculture and markets to give a beekeeper advanced notice of any inspection of an apiary; establishes the cooperative honeybee health improvement program; makes related provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "S 7111"
citation: "New York S 7111 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["HINCHEY"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-06-01"
last_action: "2021-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a6baa6f-d23f-42f2-b2f9-e91339bc52f3"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S7111"
source_hash: "7b95b830153a5b2eb7bcdc8293109200ea3d01c2f59e90c2aa5c250244162e19"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 7111 (2021-2022) — Relates to bee health and the beekeeping industry; repealer

Establishes the apiary industry advisory committee; defines terms; requires the commissioner of agriculture and markets to give a beekeeper advanced notice of any inspection of an apiary; establishes the cooperative honeybee health improvement program; makes related provisions.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S7111** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S7111&term=2021&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **149–0** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **63–0** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- HINCHEY — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-06-01** REFERRED TO AGRICULTURE `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-03** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-03** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1512
- **2021-06-07** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2021-06-07** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2021-06-07** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-07** SUBSTITUTED FOR A7568
- **2021-06-07** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.484
- **2021-06-07** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2021-06-07** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2021-06-17** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2021-06-26** SIGNED CHAP.160 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a6baa6f-d23f-42f2-b2f9-e91339bc52f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).