Bill Text: NY S05802 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows for the hunting of deer by individuals age sixty and older with a crossbow in a special archery season.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-06 - referred to environmental conservation [S05802 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05802-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5802--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 16, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens. MANNION, ASHBY, GALLIVAN, O'MARA, STEC, WALCZYK --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the  Committee  on  Environmental  Conservation  -- recommitted to the
          Committee on Environmental Conservation in accordance with Senate Rule
          6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
          hunting of deer with a crossbow

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraphs 2 and 3 of subdivision 3 of section 11-0701 of
     2  the environmental conservation law, as amended by section 1-a of part  R
     3  of  chapter 58 of the laws of 2013, are amended and a new paragraph 4 is
     4  added to read as follows:
     5    (2) who is eighteen years of age or older to hunt wild deer  and  bear
     6  with  a  longbow,  as  provided  in title [9] nine of this article, in a
     7  special longbow season; [and]
     8    (3) who is sixteen or seventeen years of  age  to  exercise  the  same
     9  privileges  subject to the provisions of section 11-0929 and subdivision
    10  3 of section 11-0713 of this article[.]; and
    11    (4) who is sixty years of age or older to hunt deer with  a  crossbow,
    12  as  provided in title nine of this article, in a special archery season.
    13  The department shall adopt regulations to allow the hunting of  deer  by
    14  the  use  of  a  crossbow to any person sixty years of age or older in a
    15  special archery season, subject to such restrictions as  the  department
    16  may  adopt by regulation. The department shall adopt regulations requir-
    17  ing documentation to establish that an applicant is eligible  to  use  a
    18  crossbow pursuant to this paragraph.
    19    §  2.  This act shall take effect June 1, 2025. Effective immediately,
    20  the addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rule or regulation  neces-
    21  sary  for  the  implementation  of  this  act  on its effective date are
    22  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

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