Assembly Bill A8295A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Protects wolves

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  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A8295 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7927
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §11-0541, En Con L

2023-A8295 - Summary

Protects wolves by requiring animals which could be wolves be submitted for a DNA test and, when determined to be wolves, requiring the department take action to protect wolves from being taken in the future.

2023-A8295 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8295
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   protecting wolves
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
 new section 11-0541 to read as follows:
 § 11-0541. PROTECTION OF WOLVES.
   1. ALL WILD CANIDS TAKEN IN THE STATE SHALL BE CHECKED AND TAGGED IN A
 MANNER TO BE DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION,
 "WILD  CANIDS" SHALL MEAN COYOTES, INCLUDING CANIDS THAT WHEN TAKEN WERE
 THOUGHT TO BE COYOTES BUT WHICH SUBSEQUENT DNA ANALYSIS REVEALED  TO  BE
 WOLVES.
   2.  WILD  CANIDS  THAT ARE TAKEN THAT HAVE A WEIGHT GREATER THAN FIFTY
 POUNDS OR THAT MEET ADDITIONAL CRITERIA ESTABLISHED  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT
 SHALL  BE  SUBJECTED  TO  A DNA ANALYSIS, PAID FOR BY THE DEPARTMENT, TO
 DETERMINE THE GENETIC COMPOSITION OF THE ANIMAL. SUCH ANALYSIS SHALL  BE
 CONDUCTED BY A REPUTABLE LABORATORY THAT HAS PRIOR EXPERIENCE GENOTYPING
 HYBRIDIZED  CANIS  POPULATIONS IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. THE RESULTS
 OF ANY ANALYSIS PERFORMED SHALL PROMPTLY BE PROVIDED TO  THE  PUBLIC  BY
 POSTING ON THE DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE.
   3.  IN THE EVENT THAT THE DEPARTMENT DETERMINES, BASED ON DNA ANALYSIS
 OR OTHER SCIENTIFIC METHOD, AND AFTER A PUBLIC  COMMENT  PERIOD  OF  NOT
 LESS  THAN  THIRTY DAYS, THAT A WILD CANID TAKEN IN THE STATE IS A WOLF,
 THE DEPARTMENT SHALL:
   (A) DETERMINE THE LOCATION WHERE THE WOLF  WAS  TAKEN  AND  DETERMINE,
 BASED  ON  FIELD RESEARCH, WHETHER THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL WOLVES IN THE
 VICINITY;
   (B) IMPOSE A MORATORIUM ON THE TAKING OF WILD CANIDS,  IN  A  SPECIFIC
 AREA OF THE STATE, FOR AS LONG AS THE DEPARTMENT DETERMINES IS NECESSARY
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13643-01-3
              

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2023-A8295A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7927
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §11-0541, En Con L

2023-A8295A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Protects wolves by requiring animals which could be wolves be submitted for a DNA test and, when determined to be wolves, requiring the department take action to protect wolves from being taken in the future.

2023-A8295A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8295--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CARROLL,  COLTON,  REYES, BICHOTTE HERMELYN,
   WEPRIN, SEAWRIGHT, SIMONE, EPSTEIN, BURDICK -- 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
   protecting wolves
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
 new section 11-0541 to read as follows:
 § 11-0541. PROTECTION OF WOLVES.
   1. ALL WILD CANIDS TAKEN IN THE STATE SHALL BE CHECKED AND TAGGED IN A
 MANNER TO BE DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION,
 "WILD  CANIDS" SHALL MEAN COYOTES, INCLUDING CANIDS THAT WHEN TAKEN WERE
 THOUGHT TO BE COYOTES BUT WHICH SUBSEQUENT DNA ANALYSIS REVEALED  TO  BE
 WOLVES.
   2.  WILD  CANIDS  THAT ARE TAKEN THAT HAVE A WEIGHT GREATER THAN FIFTY
 POUNDS OR THAT MEET ADDITIONAL CRITERIA ESTABLISHED  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT
 SHALL  BE  SUBJECTED  TO  A DNA ANALYSIS, PAID FOR BY THE DEPARTMENT, TO
 DETERMINE THE GENETIC COMPOSITION OF THE ANIMAL. SUCH ANALYSIS SHALL  BE
 CONDUCTED BY A REPUTABLE LABORATORY THAT HAS PRIOR EXPERIENCE GENOTYPING
 HYBRIDIZED  CANIS  POPULATIONS IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. THE RESULTS
 OF ANY ANALYSIS PERFORMED SHALL PROMPTLY BE PROVIDED TO  THE  PUBLIC  BY
 POSTING ON THE DEPARTMENT'S WEBSITE.
   3.  IN THE EVENT THAT THE DEPARTMENT DETERMINES, BASED ON DNA ANALYSIS
 OR OTHER SCIENTIFIC METHOD, THAT A WILD CANID  TAKEN  OR  FOUND  IN  THE
 STATE IS A WOLF, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13643-02-4
 A. 8295--A                          2
 
              

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