Bill Text: NY A07479 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for the taking of deer with a crossbow in Suffolk county.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A07479 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07479-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7479

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          allowing for the taking of deer with a crossbow in Suffolk county

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

     1    Section 1. Item (h) of paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 11-0907
     2  of  the environmental conservation law, as amended by section 1 of chap-
     3  ter 104 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:

     4  (h) Suffolk County        Deer of either sex       crossbow or
     5                                                     long bow [only]
     6                            Second Monday in
     7                            November through
     8                            March thirty-first
     9    § 2. Item (h) of paragraph a of subdivision 2 of  section  11-0907  of
    10  the  environmental  conservation law, as amended by section 2 of chapter
    11  104 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:

    12  (h) Suffolk County        Deer of either sex       crossbow or
    13                                                     long bow [only]
    14                            Second Monday in
    15                            November through
    16                            March thirty-first
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    18  the  amendments  to  item (h) of paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section
    19  11-0907 of the environmental conservation law made  by  section  one  of
    20  this  act  shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such item
    21  pursuant to section 13 of chapter 600 of the laws of 1993,  as  amended,
    22  when upon such date the provisions of section two of this act shall take
    23  effect.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10449-01-3