NY State Senate Bill 2017-S6853A

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Apr 30, 2018	referred to environmental conservation delivered to assembly passed senate
Mar 13, 2018	amended on third reading 6853a
Feb 05, 2018	advanced to third reading
Jan 30, 2018	2nd report cal.
Jan 29, 2018	1st report cal.313
Jan 03, 2018	referred to environmental conservation
Aug 16, 2017	referred to rules

Votes

- Apr 30, 2018 - Floor Vote
  S6853A
  
  39
  
  Aye
  
  24
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Apr 30, 2018
      
      aye (39)
      
      Akshar
      
      Amedore
      
      Bonacic
      
      Breslin
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      Croci
      
      DeFrancisco
      
      Dilan
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Golden
      
      Griffo
      
      Hannon
      
      Helming
      
      Jacobs
      
      Klein
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Larkin
      
      Little
      
      Marcellino
      
      Marchione
      
      Murphy
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Peralta
      
      Phillips
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Ritchie
      
      Robach
      
      Savino
      
      Serino
      
      Seward
      
      Tedisco
      
      Valesky
      
      Young
      
      nay (24)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Alcantara
      
      Avella
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Boyle
      
      Brooks
      
      Gianaris
      
      Hamilton
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      Mayer
      
      Montgomery
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Rivera
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serrano
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
  Jan 29, 2018 - Environmental Conservation Committee Vote
  S6853A
  
  5
  
  Aye
  
  4
  
  Nay
  
  4
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Environmental Conservation Committee Vote: Jan 29, 2018
      
      aye (5)
      
      Funke
      
      Little
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Tedisco
      
      nay (4)
      
      Avella
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Marcellino
      
      aye wr (4)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Kavanagh
      
      LaValle
      
      Phillips

Bill Amendments

Original

A (Active)

co-Sponsors

2017-S6853 - Details

Current Committee:: Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:: Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §11-0521, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:: S4057

2017-S6853 - Summary

Provides the department of environmental conservation with the authority to allow proven-effective methods for wildlife damage management.

2017-S6853 - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S6853

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to amend the environmental conservation law,
in relation to wildlife damage management

 PURPOSE :

Relates to exempting certain prohibitions when taking destructive
wildlife pursuant to permit.

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Section 1 adds a new subdivision 4 to section 11-0521 of the
environmental conservation law.

Section 2 establishes effective date.

 EXISTING LAW :

Government employees are currently subject to restrictions written
during outdated times of deer scarcity in the 20th century.

 JUSTIFICATION :

Restricting previously permitted deer damage methods will impact the
ability of airports, municipalities, neighborhoods, communities,

parks, and land managers to manage damage caused by certain wildlife
species and a change to the law will avoid this impact.

Wildlife management agencies and other professionals depend on these
practices to minimize risks to human health and safety at airports and
to relieve damage to natural resources, property, and agriculture.

Permission to use certain activities provides a safe, humane, and
effective means to minimizing risks to human health and safety posed
by wildlife, mitigating wildlife-aircraft strikes, and for reducing
deer populations in localized areas. DEC acknowledges that deer
population reduction is necessary in these various situations and
recognizes the need for change to statutes that clearly provides DEC
authority to permit these activities, particularly for wildlife damage
management agencies such as USDA Wildlife Services and other
professionals. Using these methods, USDA Wildlife Services has
incurred no safety incidents in 25 years.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

New bill.

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None.

 LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
Immediately.

2017-S6853 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6853
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              August 16, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to wild-
   life damage management
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  11-0521 of the environmental conservation law is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER, AN EMPLOYEE OF
 ANY STATE, FEDERAL OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY ACTING IN  THEIR  OFFICIAL
 CAPACITY,  OR  ANY  PERSON  ACTING  PURSUANT  TO  A PERMIT ISSUED BY THE
 DEPARTMENT  UNDER  THIS  SECTION,  IS  NOT  RESTRICTED  BY  PROHIBITIONS
 CONTAINED  IN SUBDIVISIONS THREE AND EIGHT OF SECTION 11-0505 AND SUBDI-
 VISIONS TWO, FOUR AND FIVE OF SECTION 11-0931 OF THIS TITLE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13398-01-7

co-Sponsors

2017-S6853A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:: Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §11-0521, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:: S4057

2017-S6853A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides the department of environmental conservation with the authority to allow proven-effective methods for wildlife damage management.

2017-S6853A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S6853A

SPONSOR: DEFRANCISCO
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to wild-
life damage management

 
PURPOSE:

Relates to exempting certain prohibitions when taking destructive wild-
life pursuant to permit.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 adds a new subdivision 4 to section 11-0521 of the environ-
mental conservation law.

Section 2 establishes effective date.

EXISTING LAW:

Government employees are currently subject to restrictions written
during outdated times of deer scarcity in the 20th century.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Restricting previously permitted deer damage methods will impact the
ability of airports, municipalities, neighborhoods, communities, parks,
and land managers to manage damage caused by certain wildlife species
and a change to the law will avoid this impact.

Wildlife management agencies and other professionals depend on these
practices to minimize risks to human health and safety at airports and
to relieve damage to natural resources, property, and agriculture.

Permission to use certain activities provides a safe, humane, and effec-
tive means to minimizing risks to human health and safety posed by wild-
life, mitigating wildlife-aircraft strikes, and for reducing deer popu-
lations in localized areas. DEC acknowledges that deer population
reduction is necessary in these various situations and recognizes the
need for change to statutes that clearly provides DEC authority to
permit these activities, particularly for wildlife damage management
agencies such as USDA Wildlife Services and other professionals. Using
these methods, USDA Wildlife Services has incurred no safety incidents
in 25 years. Bill includes law enforcement exemption from permit
restrictions.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2017-S6853A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6853--A
     Cal. No. 313
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              August 16, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  DeFRANCISCO,  VALESKY  --  read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules --
   recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in  accord-
   ance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  -- reported favorably from said
   committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered  to  a  third
   reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted, retaining its place in the
   order of third reading
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to wild-
   life damage management
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  11-0521 of the environmental
 conservation law, as added by chapter 664 of the laws  of  1972  and  as
 renumbered  by  chapter  911  of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as
 follows:
   3. THE DEPARTMENT MAY, BY PERMIT ISSUED TO AN EMPLOYEE OF  ANY  STATE,
 FEDERAL  OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY ACTING IN THEIR OFFICIAL CAPACITY OR
 TO ANY PERSON ACTING PURSUANT TO A PERMIT ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT UNDER
 THIS SECTION, EXEMPT SUCH EMPLOYEE OR PERSON FROM PROHIBITIONS CONTAINED
 IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS  SECTION,  SUBDIVISION  THREE  AND  EIGHT  OF
 SECTION  11-0505,  SUBDIVISION  TWO  OF SECTION 11-0901 AND SUBDIVISIONS
 TWO, FOUR AND FIVE OF SECTION 11-0931 OF THIS ARTICLE ONLY TO THE EXTENT
 THAT SUCH EXEMPTION OR EXEMPTIONS ARE EXPRESSLY  PROVIDED  FOR  IN  SUCH
 PERMIT.
   4. Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring or obligat-
 ing  the  department to issue a permit to take wildlife or to direct the
 taking of any wildlife when in its opinion the nuisance, destruction  of
 property  or threat to public health and welfare will not be effectively
 abated thereby.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD13398-02-8

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Senate Bill S6853A

Sponsored By

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

Apr 30, 2018 - Floor Vote

Floor Vote: Apr 30, 2018

Jan 29, 2018 - Environmental Conservation Committee Vote

Environmental Conservation Committee Vote: Jan 29, 2018

Bill Amendments

co-Sponsors

2017-S6853 - Details

2017-S6853 - Summary

2017-S6853 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S6853 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

2017-S6853A (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S6853A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S6853A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S6853A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Sponsored By

John A. DeFrancisco

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

Bill Amendments

co-Sponsors

David J. Valesky

2017-S6853 - Details

2017-S6853 - Summary

2017-S6853 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S6853 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

Luis R. Sepúlveda

David J. Valesky

2017-S6853A (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S6853A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S6853A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S6853A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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