Senate Bill S589

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Prohibiting the taking of non-native big game mammals in a fenced or other area from which there is no means for such mammal to escape

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation Committee


  • 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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2023-S589 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3784
Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-1904, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S3223, A6788
2011-2012: S3157, S6154, A4475
2013-2014: S3426, A3772
2015-2016: S2775, A3701
2017-2018: S5613, A4120
2019-2020: S2519, A883
2021-2022: S1036, A5732

2023-S589 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the taking of non-native big game mammals in a fenced or other area from which there is no means for such mammal to escape.

2023-S589 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S589 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    589
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 5, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  KRUEGER,  HOYLMAN, LIU, SERRANO -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
   prohibition on canned shoots

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  11-1904 of the environmental
 conservation law, as added by chapter  208  of  the  laws  of  1999,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1.  No  person  who  owns, operates or manages a facility that harbors
 non-native big game mammals shall knowingly permit:
   a. The taking on such premises by any person who pays [a] ANY  fee  to
 take a live non-native big game mammal by any of the following means:
   (1)  the  shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal that is
 tied or hobbled;
   (2) the shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal  that  is
 staked or attached to any object;
   (3)  the  shooting or spearing of a non-native big game mammal that is
 confined in a box, pen, cage  or  similar  container  [of  ten  or  less
 contiguous  acres]  OR  IN A FENCED OR OTHER AREA from which there is no
 means for such mammal to escape;
   (4) the deliberate release of a non-native big  game  mammal  that  is
 confined  in  a  box,  pen,  cage  or  similar container [of ten or less
 contiguous acres] OR IN A FENCED OR OTHER AREA FROM WHICH  THERE  IS  NO
 MEANS FOR SUCH MAMMAL TO ESCAPE in the presence of any person who is, or
 will be, shooting or spearing such non-native big game mammal.
   b. For purposes of this section:
   (1)  shooting  shall  mean the discharge of any type of firearm or bow
 and arrow; [and]
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02909-01-3
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