New York A 8330: Clarifies provisions regarding the use of crossbows for hunting

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A08330 Summary:

BILL NOA08330A

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SAME ASSAME AS S06360-A

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SPONSORWoerner

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COSPNSRSteck, Buttenschon, Kay, Burdick, McDonald, Gallahan, Bendett, Lemondes, Sayegh, Santabarbara,
 Conrad, Jones, Chludzinski

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §11-0103, 11-0901, 11-0907 & 11-0931, En Con L

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Clarifies provisions regarding the use of crossbows for hunting, allowing the department of environmental conservation to allow the use of crossbows for the taking of big game in any area long bows are permitted.

Go to top A08330 Actions:

BILL NOA08330A

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05/13/2025referred to environmental conservation

05/15/2025amend and recommit to environmental conservation

05/15/2025print number 8330a

05/20/2025reported referred to codes

05/28/2025reported referred to rules

06/17/2025reported 

06/17/2025rules report cal.876

06/17/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.876

06/17/2025substituted by s6360a

&nbspS06360 AMEND=A HARCKHAM

&nbsp03/11/2025REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

&nbsp05/08/2025AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

&nbsp05/08/2025PRINT NUMBER 6360A

&nbsp05/13/20251ST REPORT CAL.1055

&nbsp05/14/20252ND REPORT CAL.

&nbsp05/15/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

&nbsp06/11/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/11/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp06/11/2025referred to codes

&nbsp06/17/2025substituted for a8330a

&nbsp06/17/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.876

&nbsp06/17/2025passed assembly

&nbsp06/17/2025returned to senate

&nbsp08/22/2025DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

&nbsp08/26/2025SIGNED CHAP.358

Go to topA08330 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION Chair:Glick 
DATE:05/20/2025AYE/NAY:30/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Codes GlickAyeSimpsonAye

ColtonAyeSmullenAye

OtisAyeTagueAye

WilliamsAyeManktelowAye

BarrettAyeBrownAye

CarrollAyeLemondesAye

EpsteinAyeSlaterAye

McMahonAyeBaileyAye

BurdickAyeSempolinskiAye

LunsfordAye

KellesAye

Gonzalez-RojasAye

SeptimoAye

LeeAye

LevenbergAye

SimoneAye

AndersonAye

ConradAye

LasherAye

SchiavoniAye

KassayAye

Committee:CODES Chair:Dinowitz 
DATE:05/28/2025AYE/NAY:19/2 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules DinowitzAyeMorinelloAye

CookAyeReillyAye

SimonAyeMikulinAye

WeprinAyeTannousisAye

HevesiAyeAngelinoAye

SeawrightAyeMolitorAye

RosenthalAye

WalkerAye

VanelAye

CruzAye

EpsteinNay

BoresNay

ReyesAye

CunninghamAbsent

RomeroAye

AlvarezAye

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:06/17/2025AYE/NAY:30/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedBarclayAye

PretlowAyeHawleyAye

CookAyeBlankenbushAye

GlickAyeRaAye

DinowitzAyeBrabenecAye

ColtonAyePalmesanoAye

MagnarelliAyeReillyAye

PaulinAyeSmithAye

Peoples-StokesAyeJensenAye

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaAye

HyndmanAye

RozicAye

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA08330 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA08330 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8330--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 13, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, STECK -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Environmental Conservation -- committee discharged, bill
 amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
 tee

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to clar-
 ifying provisions regarding the use of crossbows for hunting

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

 1 Section 1. Section 11-0103 of the environmental conservation law is
 2 amended by adding a new subdivision 33 to read as follows:
 3 33. "Long bow" includes longbows, recurve bows, compound bows, and
 4 crossbows.
 5 § 2. Subparagraph 9 of paragraph b of subdivision 4 of section 11-0901
 6 of the environmental conservation law, as added by section 6 of part EE
 7 of chapter 55 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
 8 (9) with a crossbow unless such crossbow shall consist of a bow and
 9 string, either compound or recurve, [that launches a minimum fourteen
 10 inch bolt, not including point,] mounted upon a stock with a trigger
 11 that holds the string and limbs under tension unti