Bill Text: NY S08049 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8049 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the biological control of Lyme disease vectors; authorizes the department of environmental conservation to suspend any existing authorization for the taking of foxes when the departments of health and environmental conservation certify that the health and welfare of the human population are in danger from Lyme disease in the area.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-13 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S08049 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08049-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8049

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 13, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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  the
          biological control of Lyme disease vectors

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

     1    Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new section 11-0525-a to read as follows:
     3  § 11-0525-a. Biological control of Lyme disease vectors.
     4    1.  Whenever Lyme disease occurs in an area of the state such that the
     5  departments of health and environmental conservation  certify  that  the
     6  health  and welfare of the human population are in danger therefrom, the
     7  department is thereupon authorized and directed to suspend any  existing
     8  authorization  for  the  taking of foxes, notwithstanding paragraph b of
     9  subdivision two of section 11-0903 of this  article.    Notice  of  such
    10  prohibition  shall be provided by department press release and any other
    11  means that the department determines to be  appropriate  and  effective,
    12  including posting on the department's public website.
    13    2. Such control measures shall be continued until the commissioners of
    14  health  and  environmental  conservation  shall  jointly  determine that
    15  control measures should be terminated.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10210-01-9