Assembly Bill A8963

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the criteria for designating certain species as vulnerable species

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S6933 - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A8963 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6933
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0535-b, En Con L; amd §6, Chap of 2019 (as proposed in S.5098 & A.6600)

2019-A8963 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides criteria for designating certain species as vulnerable species, and provides for a repeal date for when a report to be provided to the department of environmental conservation shall no longer be required.

2019-A8963 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8963
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 6, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
   required  criteria  to  be  designated as a vulnerable species; and to
   amend a chapter of  the  laws  of  2019,  amending  the  environmental
   conservation law relating to designating certain species as vulnerable
   species and prohibiting the sale of articles made from such vulnerable
   species, in relation to the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 11-0535-b of  the
 environmental  conservation  law,  as  added by a chapter of the laws of
 2019, amending the environmental conservation law relating to  designat-
 ing  certain  species  as vulnerable species and prohibiting the sale of
 articles made from such vulnerable species, as proposed  in  legislative
 bills numbers S.  5098 and A. 6600, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  On  the  basis of credible scientific evidence, which may include
 information contained on the international  union  for  conservation  of
 nature  and  natural  resources red list of threatened species, or other
 similar data:
   (i) the species has an observed, estimated[, inferred,]  OR  projected
 [or suspected] population [size reduction of thirty percent or more over
 the  last  ten  years or three generations, whichever is longer] DECLINE
 THAT IF UNREVERSED, WILL LIKELY RESULT IN THE  SPECIES  BECOMING  ENDAN-
 GERED OR THREATENED WITHIN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE; or
   (ii)  [the geographic range of the species is less than eight thousand
 square miles and the area of occupancy is less than eight hundred square
 miles, and the species' habitat is severely fragmented or the species is
 found in fewer than ten locations; or
   (iii) there are less than ten thousand mature individuals and the risk
 of extinction of the species within one hundred years is more  than  ten
 percent; or
   (iv)]  other  factors that may cause the species to go extinct if they
 are not identified and reversed;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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