Bill Text: NY A05728 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
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 16-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-30 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [A05728 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A05728-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5728 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 24, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, GOTTFRIED, ABINANTI, L. ROSENTHAL, FAHY, COLTON, JACOBSON, STECK, PERRY, PAULIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Envi- ronmental 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, 2023. 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. LBD07581-01-1