Bill Text: NY A08790 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 8790 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to any adoption by the department of environmental conservation of a management plan concerning mute swans.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-6)

Status: (Vetoed) 2014-12-17 - tabled [A08790 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A08790-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8790--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 14, 2014
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. CYMBROWITZ, THIELE, ENGLEBRIGHT, COLTON, SKOUFIS,
         BROOK-KRASNY,  LAVINE,  LIFTON, CURRAN, GRAF, RAIA, SALADINO -- Multi-
         Sponsored by -- M.  of A. GARBARINO, McKEVITT, MOSLEY,  WEISENBERG  --
         read  once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
         -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
         and recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  establishing  a  moratorium  on the department of environmental
         conservation's plan to  declare  mute  swans  a  "prohibited  invasive
         species"; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expira-
         tion thereof
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Prior to the adoption of any management plan for mute swans
    2  (cygnus olor), a bird species for which the Atlantic flyway council  has
    3  issued  a draft management plan, the department of environmental conser-
    4  vation shall, after the effective date of this act, at a  minimum,  hold
    5  not  less  than two public hearings in areas with mute swan populations,
    6  following adequate public notice, and, after the  last  of  such  public
    7  hearings,  include  a  public comment period of not less than forty-five
    8  days. Any such management plan shall at a minimum:
    9    (a) give priority to non-lethal management techniques;
   10    (b) fully document the scientific basis for future population  projec-
   11  tions;
   12    (c)  fully  document  the  scientific  basis for current and projected
   13  environmental damage;
   14    (d) include a public education component; and
   15    (e) include responses to all substantive public comments.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
   17  deemed repealed two years after such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13863-04-4