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Assembly Bill A3065

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to local government authority to prohibit trade in real fur products

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2025-A3065 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §11-0114, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A8442
2023-2024: A1614

2025-A3065 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to local government authority to prohibit trade in real fur products, including but not limited to any article of clothing, fashion accessory, or home decoration that is made in whole or part of real fur.

2025-A3065 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3065
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
   LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on  Environmental
   Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to local
   government authority to prohibit trade in real fur products

   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 11-0114 to read as follows:
 § 11-0114. REGULATION OF THE REAL FUR TRADE.
   NOTHING IN THIS CHAPTER, THE GENERAL BUSINESS LAW, THE AGRICULTURE AND
 MARKETS  LAW  OR  IN REGULATIONS PROMULGATED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF SUCH
 CHAPTERS, SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO PREVENT ANY MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OR ANY
 OTHER LOCAL GOVERNING BODY FROM ADOPTING AND ENFORCING LAWS  PROHIBITING
 OR  RESTRICTING TRADE IN OR SALE OF REAL FUR PRODUCTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT
 LIMITED TO ANY ARTICLE OF CLOTHING, FASHION ACCESSORY OR HOME DECORATION
 THAT IS MADE IN WHOLE OR PART OF REAL FUR.  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS
 SECTION,  "REAL  FUR"  SHALL  HAVE  THE SAME MEANING AS IN SECTION THREE
 HUNDRED NINETY-NINE-AAA OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06353-01-5

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