Bill Sponsors: NY A02010 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly
Bill Title: Prohibits the use of body-gripping traps within 100 feet of a public highway, public road, dwelling, school, playground, day care facility, place of worship, athletic field, or public bike paths, walking paths or hiking trails; prohibits the use of such traps within 500 feet of such facilities without the permission of the owner thereof; authorizes landowners to set traps within 100 feet of their own dwellings; requires that public lands where trapping is permitted to be posted with signs warning of such trapping; makes the violation of laws relating to trapping a misdemeanor; establishes enhanced criminal penalties for use of body-gripping traps too close to certain facilities or dwellings; defines "body-gripping traps".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to environmental conservation [A02010 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to environmental conservation [A02010 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Sponsors
Name | Type | Sponsorship | District | Financial | Encyclopedia | Biography |
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Assemblymember Steven Englebright [D] | Primary | Sponsored Bills | HD-004 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Assemblymember Felix Ortiz [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-051 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Assemblymember William Colton [D] | Primary | Sponsored Bills | HD-047 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz [D] | Primary | Sponsored Bills | HD-081 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Assemblymember Sandra Galef [D] | Primary | Sponsored Bills | HD-095 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Assemblymember Earlene Hooper [D] | Primary | Sponsored Bills | HD-052 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |