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Assembly Bill A7551

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Limits the department of environmental conservation's ability to fix special open seasons for taking wild deer

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2025-A7551 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1101
Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0903, En Con L

2025-A7551 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the department of environmental conservation's ability to fix special open seasons for taking wild deer to ending no later than the 3rd Sunday of December of each year; allows the department to issue regulations for special seasons for particular counties or designated wildlife management units after consultation with local governments and stakeholders.

2025-A7551 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7551
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 1, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   limiting the department of environmental conservation's ability to fix
   special open seasons for taking wild deer

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  c  of  subdivision 9 of section 11-0903 of the
 environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 911 of the laws of
 1990, is amended to read as follows:
   c. Such seasons may be fixed for any number of days during the  period
 beginning  on  the eleventh day after the close of a regular open season
 for deer established by law and ending on [February 10] THE THIRD SUNDAY
 OF DECEMBER immediately following; PROVIDED, HOWEVER THAT THE DEPARTMENT
 MAY, UPON CONSULTATION WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENTS  AND  STAKEHOLDERS,  ISSUE
 REGULATIONS  FOR  SPECIAL  SEASONS FOR PARTICULAR COUNTIES OR DESIGNATED
 WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT UNITS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03128-03-5

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