New York A 1089: Prohibits the use of lead ammunition in the taking of wildlife on state-owned land and on land contributing surface water to the New York city water supply

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A01089 Summary:

BILL NOA01089 

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SAME ASSAME AS S04954

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SPONSORGlick

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COSPNSRRosenthal, Colton, Jacobson, Steck, Paulin, Burdick, Kelles, Epstein, Seawright, Simon, Simone,
 Raga

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§11-0901 & 11-0323, En Con L

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Prohibits the use of lead ammunition in the taking of wildlife on wildlife management areas, state forests, forest preserves, state parks or any other state-owned land that is open for hunting and on land contributing surface water to the New York city water supply.

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BILL NOA01089 

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01/08/2025referred to environmental conservation

01/07/2026referred to environmental conservation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1089

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, ROSENTHAL, COLTON, JACOBSON, STECK,
 PAULIN, BURDICK, KELLES, EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, SIMONE, RAGA --
 read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
 prohibiting the use of lead ammunition in the taking of wildlife on
 state-owned land and land contributing surface water to the New York
 city water supply

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 11-0901 of the environmental
 2 conservation law is amended by adding a new paragraph h to read as
 3 follows:
 4 h. Wildlife shall not be taken with the use of lead ammunition on: (1)
 5 wildlife management areas, state forests, forest preserves, state parks
 6 or any other state-owned land that is open for hunting; and (2) the land
 7 area contributing surface water to the New York city water supply. For
 8 the purposes of this paragraph "lead ammunition" shall mean any ammuni-
 9 tion that contains one or more percent of lead by weight.
 10 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 11-0323 of the environmental conserva-
 11 tion law, as separately amended by section 19 of part H of chapter 58
 12 and chapter 342 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
 13 2. The department shall also prepare a syllabus of such laws and
 14 information informing migratory game bird hunters where they can obtain
 15 information regarding open seasons and bag limits, lead ammunition
 16 prohibitions, federal regulations pursuant to sections 11-1721 and
 17 11-1723 of this article and of laws relating to invasive species (as
 18 defined in section 9-1703 of this chapter). The department shall deliver
 19 copies of such syllabus to county, city, town and village clerks in
 20 numbers sufficient for the furnishing of one copy to each person to whom
 21 a hunting, trapping or fishing license is issued. Each such licensee
 22 shall be entitled to one copy of such syllabus.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03037-01-5

 A. 1089 2

 1 § 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2027. Effective immediate-
 2 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
 3 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
 4 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

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