Bill Text: NY A01089 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the use of lead ammunition in the taking of wildlife on wildlife management areas, state forests, forest preserves, state parks or any other state-owned land that is open for hunting and on land contributing surface water to the New York city water supply.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A01089 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01089-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1089

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GLICK,  ROSENTHAL,  COLTON, JACOBSON, STECK,
          PAULIN, BURDICK, KELLES, EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON,  SIMONE,  RAGA  --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          prohibiting the use of lead ammunition in the taking  of  wildlife  on
          state-owned  land  and land contributing surface water to the New York
          city water supply

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  11-0901 of the environmental
     2  conservation law is amended by adding a  new  paragraph  h  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    h. Wildlife shall not be taken with the use of lead ammunition on: (1)
     5  wildlife  management areas, state forests, forest preserves, state parks
     6  or any other state-owned land that is open for hunting; and (2) the land
     7  area contributing surface water to the New York city water supply.   For
     8  the  purposes of this paragraph "lead ammunition" shall mean any ammuni-
     9  tion that contains one or more percent of lead by weight.
    10    § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 11-0323 of the  environmental  conserva-
    11  tion  law,  as  separately amended by section 19 of part H of chapter 58
    12  and chapter 342 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
    13    2. The department shall also prepare  a  syllabus  of  such  laws  and
    14  information  informing migratory game bird hunters where they can obtain
    15  information regarding open  seasons  and  bag  limits,  lead  ammunition
    16  prohibitions,  federal  regulations  pursuant  to  sections  11-1721 and
    17  11-1723 of this article and of laws relating  to  invasive  species  (as
    18  defined in section 9-1703 of this chapter). The department shall deliver
    19  copies  of  such  syllabus  to  county, city, town and village clerks in
    20  numbers sufficient for the furnishing of one copy to each person to whom
    21  a hunting, trapping or fishing license is  issued.  Each  such  licensee
    22  shall be entitled to one copy of such syllabus.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03037-01-5
        A. 1089                             2

     1    §  3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2027. Effective immediate-
     2  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
     3  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
     4  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.