Bill Text: NY S01069 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the lease of state forests, reforestation areas, wildlife management areas and unique areas for the purpose of gas and oil production.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S01069 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01069-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1069

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  SERRANO,  HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, KAVANAGH, MAY,
          SEPULVEDA -- 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 lease of state forests, reforestation areas,  wildlife
          management areas and unique areas for gas and oil production

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs a and b of subdivision 1 of section  23-1101  of
     2  the environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 29 of the laws
     3  of 2019, are amended to read as follows:
     4    a.  The  exploration, development and production of gas in state-owned
     5  lands, except state park  lands,  state  forests,  reforestation  areas,
     6  wildlife management areas, unique areas, the marine and coastal district
     7  as  defined  in section 13-0103 of this chapter, and the lands under the
     8  waters of Lake Ontario or along its shoreline; and
     9    b. The exploration, development and production of oil  in  state-owned
    10  lands,  except  state  park  lands,  state forests, reforestation areas,
    11  wildlife management areas, unique areas, the marine and coastal district
    12  as defined in section 13-0103 of this chapter, and the lands  under  the
    13  waters of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario or along their shorelines.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



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