Bill Text: NY S00724 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits the lease of state forests, reforestation areas, wildlife management areas and unique areas for the purpose of gas and oil production.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-07 - referred to environmental conservation [S00724 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00724-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         724--A
            Cal. No. 336

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  SERRANO,  HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, KAVANAGH, MAY,
          SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed  to  be
          committed  to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommit-
          ted to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in accordance  with
          Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  reported favorably from said committee,
          ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed
          by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote  reconsidered,
          restored  to  third  reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
          its place in the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting  the lease of state forests, reforestation areas, wildlife
          management areas and unique areas for gas and oil production

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraphs a and b of subdivision 1 of section 23-1101 of
     2  the environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 29 of the laws
     3  of 2019, are amended to read as follows:
     4    a. The exploration, development and production of gas  in  state-owned
     5  lands,  except  state  park  lands,  state forests, reforestation areas,
     6  wildlife management areas, unique areas, the marine and coastal district
     7  as defined in section 13-0103 of this chapter, and the lands  under  the
     8  waters of Lake Ontario or along its shoreline; and
     9    b.  The  exploration, development and production of oil in state-owned
    10  lands, except state park  lands,  state  forests,  reforestation  areas,
    11  wildlife management areas, unique areas, the marine and coastal district
    12  as  defined  in section 13-0103 of this chapter, and the lands under the
    13  waters of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario or along their shorelines.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


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