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                                  6818--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 21, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Environmental  Conservation -- 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:
 
   Section  1.    The  department of environmental conservation shall, no
 later than January 1, 2019, prepare a report to the legislature  regard-
 ing deer management techniques in urban and suburban areas of the state.
 Such  report,  which  shall  be  based  on the best available scientific
 information, shall include:
   (i) an evaluation of alternative  deer  control  methods,  other  than
 traditional  hunting,  that  may  be employed to reduce deer population,
 which may include, but need not be limited to capture and euthanization,
 capture and removal, and fertility control;
   (ii) methods to mitigate crop, vegetation, and  property  damage  from
 deer, including vehicle collisions;
   (iii)  management  measures currently taken by the department to mini-
 mize conflict between humans and deer;
   (iv) methods to enhance public engagement in  and  awareness  of  deer
 management issues;
   (v)  methods  to  reduce  the spread of wildlife-transmitted illnesses
 such as Lyme disease;
   (vi) identification and evaluation of urban and suburban areas of  the
 state with high concentrations of deer populations;
   (vii)  the  basis for the department's current deer population manage-
 ment levels; and
   (viii) review of effective management measures being  taken  in  other
 states.
   § 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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