Bill Text: NY S05058 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S05058 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05058-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5058

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 22, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- 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
          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