Bill Text: NY A01101 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting the release of certain balloons; prohibits a person from knowingly or intentionally releasing outdoors any balloons constructed of electrically conductive material filled with helium or a gas lighter than air; provides exceptions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - referred to environmental conservation [A01101 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01101-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1101

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting the release of certain balloons

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

     1    Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new section 11-0331 to read as follows:
     3  § 11-0331. Release of certain balloons prohibited.
     4    1.  No  person  shall  knowingly  release or intentionally cause to be
     5  released outdoors any balloon  constructed  of  electrically  conductive
     6  material and filled with helium or a gas lighter than air.
     7    2.  No  person  shall  knowingly  release or intentionally cause to be
     8  released outdoors, within a twenty-four hour period, twenty-five or more
     9  balloons constructed of non-electrically conductive material and  filled
    10  with helium or a gas lighter than air.
    11    3. This section shall not apply to:
    12    (a)  balloons  which  are  used for the purpose of carrying scientific
    13  instrumentation during the performance of an experiment or test or by  a
    14  person  on behalf of a governmental agency or pursuant to a governmental
    15  contract for scientific or meteorological purposes; or
    16    (b) manned hot air balloons.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    18  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00076-01-5