Bill Text: NY A02084 | 2023-2024 | 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 15-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-03 - ordered to third reading cal.61 [A02084 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02084-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2084

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GLICK, L. ROSENTHAL, FAHY, COLTON, JACOBSON,
          STECK, PAULIN, BURDICK, KELLES, EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT --  Multi-Sponsored
          by  --  M. of A.  THIELE -- 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. This act shall take effect January 1, 2025. Effective immediate-
    11  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
    12  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
    13  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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