Senate Bill S8304

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to falconry

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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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2025-S8304 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-1001, En Con L

2025-S8304 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of DEC to remove peregrine falcons from the endangered species list and to promulgate regulations for their use in falconry.

2025-S8304 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8304 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8304
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 30, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. OBERACKER -- 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
   falconry
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section 11-1001 of the environmental conservation law, as
 added by chapter 825 of the laws of 1973, subdivision 1  as  amended  by
 chapter 325 of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as follows:
 § 11-1001. Definitions.
   (1)  "Raptors" means all species of the orders Strigiformes and Falco-
 niformes and shall include but not be limited to  falcons,  hawks,  owls
 and  eagles except the golden eagle (Aquila [chrysaetor] CHRYSAETOS) and
 bald eagle (Haliaetus leucocephalus) and all birds listed as  endangered
 or  threatened  pursuant  to  section  11-0535 of this article. However,
 [properly banded peregrine  falcons  which  are  the  progeny  of  birds
 lawfully  acquired  prior  to 1978 are] LAWFULLY ACQUIRED GOLDEN EAGLES,
 PEREGRINE FALCONS, AND THEIR PROGENY ARE raptors within the  meaning  of
 this section.
   (2)  "Falconry"  means  the  sport  of  hunting  by the use of trained
 raptors and includes the training, feeding and handling  of  such  birds
 and their recapture after being released for hunting or training.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13299-01-5

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