Bill Text: NY S03004 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to protecting newly acquired state land.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S03004 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03004-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          3004
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 31, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. FUNKE, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Environmental
          Conservation
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          protecting newly acquired state land
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  3-0107  of the environmental conservation law is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3. The commissioner shall add one  new  full  time  equivalent  forest
     4  ranger position for every thirty thousand acres of land that is acquired
     5  by  the  state and placed under the jurisdiction of the department. Each
     6  position shall be filled prior to the implementation of  the  property's
     7  unit management plan or resource management plan.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07125-01-9
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