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Assembly Bill A6815A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to hunting deer with a crossbow

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2023-A6815 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5802
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0701, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S7415

2023-A6815 - Summary

Allows for the hunting of deer by individuals age sixty and older with a crossbow in a special archery season.

2023-A6815 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6815
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 8, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
   hunting of deer with a crossbow
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraphs 2 and 3 of subdivision 3 of section  11-0701  of
 the  environmental conservation law, as amended by section 1-a of Part R
 of chapter 58 of the laws of 2013, are amended and a new paragraph 4  is
 added to read as follows:
   (2)  who  is eighteen years of age or older to hunt wild deer and bear
 with a longbow, as provided in title 9 of this  article,  in  a  special
 longbow season;[and]
   (3)  who  is  sixteen  or  seventeen years of age to exercise the same
 privileges subject to the provisions of section 11-0929 and  subdivision
 3 of section 11-0713 of this article[.] ;AND
   (4)  WHO  IS SIXTY YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER TO HUNT DEER WITH A CROSSBOW,
 AS PROVIDED IN TITLE NINE OF THIS ARTICLE, IN A SPECIAL ARCHERY  SEASON.
 THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL ADOPT REGULATIONS TO ALLOW THE HUNTING OF DEER BY
 THE USE OF A CROSSBOW TO ANY PERSON SIXTY YEARS OF AGE  OR  OLDER  IN  A
 SPECIAL  ARCHERY  SEASON, SUBJECT TO SUCH RESTRICTIONS AS THE DEPARTMENT
 MAY ADOPT BY REGULATION. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ADOPT REGULATIONS  REQUIR-
 ING  DOCUMENTATION  TO  ESTABLISH THAT AN APPLICANT IS ELIGIBLE TO USE A
 CROSSBOW PURSUANT TO THIS PARAGRAPH.
   § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2024.  Effective  immediately,
 the  addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
 sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10308-01-3

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2023-A6815A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5802
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0701, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S7415

2023-A6815A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows for the hunting of deer by individuals age sixty and older with a crossbow in a special archery season.

2023-A6815A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6815--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 8, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. WOERNER, BUTTENSCHON, EACHUS -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation -- recommitted
   to the Committee on  Environmental  Conservation  in  accordance  with
   Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN  ACT  to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
   hunting of deer with a crossbow
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs 2 and 3 of subdivision 3 of section 11-0701 of
 the environmental conservation law, as amended by section 1-a of part  R
 of  chapter 58 of the laws of 2013, are amended and a new paragraph 4 is
 added to read as follows:
   (2) who is eighteen years of age or older to hunt wild deer  and  bear
 with  a  longbow,  as  provided  in title [9] NINE of this article, in a
 special longbow season; [and]
   (3) who is sixteen or seventeen years of  age  to  exercise  the  same
 privileges  subject to the provisions of section 11-0929 and subdivision
 3 of section 11-0713 of this article[.]; AND
   (4) WHO IS SIXTY YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER TO HUNT DEER WITH  A  CROSSBOW,
 AS  PROVIDED IN TITLE NINE OF THIS ARTICLE, IN A SPECIAL ARCHERY SEASON.
 THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ADOPT REGULATIONS TO ALLOW THE HUNTING OF  DEER  BY
 THE  USE  OF  A  CROSSBOW TO ANY PERSON SIXTY YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER IN A
 SPECIAL ARCHERY SEASON, SUBJECT TO SUCH RESTRICTIONS AS  THE  DEPARTMENT
 MAY  ADOPT BY REGULATION. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ADOPT REGULATIONS REQUIR-
 ING DOCUMENTATION TO ESTABLISH THAT AN APPLICANT IS ELIGIBLE  TO  USE  A
 CROSSBOW PURSUANT TO THIS PARAGRAPH.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect June 1, 2025. Effective immediately,
 the addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rule or regulation  neces-
 sary  for  the  implementation  of  this  act  on its effective date are
 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10308-03-4

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