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A05947 Summary:

BILL NOA05947 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSimon

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §11-1710, En Con L; add Art 22-A §§270 - 272, Ag & Mkts L

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Prohibits certain wildlife and fish from being imported into the state in order to protect public health and safety, native wildlife and fish, and the agricultural interests of the state; relates to the operation of live animal markets.

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BILL NOA05947 

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02/25/2025referred to environmental conservation

01/07/2026referred to environmental conservation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5947

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 25, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Environmental Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
 prohibiting certain wildlife and fish from being imported into the
 state; and to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to
 live animal markets

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

 1 Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
 2 new section 11-1710 to read as follows:
 3 § 11-1710. Prohibited import of wildlife and fish.
 4 1. (a) The department shall promulgate a list by rule or regulation,
 5 no later than December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-six, of wild-
 6 life and fish that shall not be imported or transported into this state.
 7 The list established pursuant to this subdivision shall include all bat,
 8 rodent and primate species, unless and until a finding is made pursuant
 9 to paragraph (c) of this subdivision that the importation restriction on
 10 a species is not necessary.
 11 (b) The department shall add a wildlife animal or fish to the list
 12 created pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision if it determines
 13 that prohibiting the importation or transportation of such wildlife or
 14 fish into the state is necessary to protect public health and safety,
 15 native wildlife or fish, or agricultural interests of the state.
 16 (c) The department shall remove a wildlife animal or fish from the
 17 list created pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision if it deter-
 18 mines that prohibiting the importation or transportation of such wild-
 19 life or fish into the state is not necessary to protect public health
 20 and safety, native wildlife or fish, or agricultural interests of the
 21 state.
 22 (d) The department shall publish the list created pursuant to para-
 23 graph (a) of this subdivision on its website.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06739-01-5

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 1 2. (a) The department shall immediately suspend any existing license
 2 or authorization, and shall not issue any new license or authorization,
 3 for the import of a species of wildlife or fish into the state if any
 4 state agency makes a written finding that scientific evidence suggests
 5 that zoonotic transmission from such species, or a closely related
 6 species within the same family, could be responsible for a novel, or not
 7 previously reported, readily transmissible human disease.
 8 (b) The department shall take any additional measures pursuant to its
 9 authority under this chapter related to wildlife and fish it shall deem
 10 necessary to protect the public health from the transmission of a
 11 zoonotic disease that has the potential to cause a human disease
 12 outbreak or epidemic.
 13 (c) The department shall not authorize the importation of any individ-
 14 ual wildlife or fish species that could be responsible for zoonotic
 15 transmission of a readily transmissible human disease until a protocol
 16 for robust testing, effective treatment, or quarantine, as appropriate
 17 and subject to paragraph (d) of this subdivision, is implemented to
 18 ensure that all individual animal species subject to a license or
 19 authorization are not carriers.
 20 (d) In implementing this section, the d