New York S 252: Relates to wild or exotic animals

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S00252 Summary:

BILL NOS00252 

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SAME ASSAME AS A01804

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SPONSORMARTINEZ

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COSPNSRADDABBO, COMRIE, GOUNARDES, MAY, MURRAY, SEPULVEDA, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§11-0103 & 11-0512, En Con L

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Provides that "wild animal" means indigenous, non-domesticated animals native to the country in which they live and "exotic animal" means a wild animal with an origin of a different continent; adds certain wild or exotic animals to the list of non-companion animals; provides certain owners of wild or exotic animals with a license process.

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BILL NOS00252 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

02/25/20251ST REPORT CAL.393

02/26/20252ND REPORT CAL.

03/03/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

04/08/2025PASSED SENATE

04/08/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

04/08/2025referred to environmental conservation

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

01/20/20261ST REPORT CAL.51

01/21/20262ND REPORT CAL.

01/27/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/13/2026PASSED SENATE

05/13/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/13/2026referred to environmental conservation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 252

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. MARTINEZ, COMRIE, GOUNARDES, MAY, SEPULVEDA -- 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 wild
 or exotic animals

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph e of subdivision 6 of section 11-0103 of the
 2 environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 10 of the laws of
 3 2005, is amended to read as follows:
 4 e. ["Wild animal" shall not include "companion animal" as defined in
 5 section three hundred fifty of the agriculture and markets law. Wild
 6 animal includes,] "Wild animal" means indigenous, non-domesticated
 7 animals native to the country in which they live. "Exotic animal" means
 8 a wild animal with an origin of a different continent. The terms wild
 9 animal and exotic animal shall not include "companion animal" as defined
 10 in section three hundred fifty of the agriculture and markets law. Wild
 11 animals and exotic animals include and [is] are limited to, any or all
 12 of the following orders [and], families, and genera:
 13 (1) Nonhuman primates and prosimians,
 14 (2) Felidae and all hybrids thereof, with the exception of the species
 15 Felis catus (domesticated and feral cats, which shall mean domesticated
 16 cats that were formerly owned and that have been abandoned and that are
 17 no longer socialized, as well as offspring of such cats) and hybrids of
 18 Felis catus that are registered by the American Cat Fanciers Association
 19 or the International Cat Association provided that such cats be without
 20 any wild felid parentage for a minimum of five generations,
 21 (3) Canidae (with the exception of domesticated dogs and captive bred
 22 fennec foxes (vulpes zerda)),
 23 (4) Ursidae,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00904-01-5

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 1 (5) All reptiles that are venomous by nature, pursuant to department
 2 regulation, and the following species and orders: Burmese Python (Python
 3 m. bivittatus), Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus), African Rock
 4 Python (Python sabae), Green Anaconda (Eunectes maurinus), Yellow
 5 Anaconda (Eunectes notaeus), Australian Amethystine Python (Morelia
 6 amethistina and Morelia kinghorni), Indian Python (Python molurus),
 7 Asiatic (water) Monitor (Varanus salvator), Nile Monitor (Varanus nilo-
 8 citus), White Throat Monitor (Varanus albigularis), Black Throat Monitor
 9 (Varanus albigularis ionides) and Crocodile Monitor (Varanus salvadori),
 10 Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodensis) and any hybrid thereof,
 11 (6) Crocodylia,
 12 (7) Macropodidae including but not lim