Bill Text: NY S05967 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 5967 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires the department of environmental conservation to report on deer management technique in urban and suburban areas.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-12-18 - SIGNED CHAP.466 [S05967 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05967-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5967--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 9, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
          -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Commit-
          tee on Rules -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to require the department of environmental conservation to report
          on deer management techniques in urban and suburban areas
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.   The department of environmental  conservation  shall,  no
     2  later  than January 1, 2019, prepare a report to the legislature regard-
     3  ing deer management techniques in urban and suburban areas of the state.
     4  Such report, which shall be  based  on  the  best  available  scientific
     5  information, shall include:
     6    (i)  an  evaluation  of  alternative  deer control methods, other than
     7  traditional hunting, that may be employed  to  reduce  deer  population,
     8  which may include, but need not be limited to capture and euthanization,
     9  capture and removal, and fertility control;
    10    (ii)  methods  to  mitigate crop, vegetation, and property damage from
    11  deer, including vehicle collisions;
    12    (iii) management measures currently taken by the department  to  mini-
    13  mize conflict between humans and deer;
    14    (iv)  methods  to  enhance  public engagement in and awareness of deer
    15  management issues;
    16    (v) methods to reduce the  spread  of  wildlife-transmitted  illnesses
    17  such as Lyme disease;
    18    (vi)  identification and evaluation of urban and suburban areas of the
    19  state with high concentrations of deer populations;
    20    (vii) the basis for the department's current deer  population  manage-
    21  ment levels; and
    22    (viii)  review  of  effective management measures being taken in other
    23  states.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09693-03-7