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.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A2084A
SPONSOR: Glick TITLE OF BILL:
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
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of lead ammunition when
hunting on state-owned and land contributing surface water to the New
York City water supply
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section one amends section 11-0901 of the environmental conservation law
so that ammunition that contains one or more percent of lead by weight
may not be used to take wildlife on state-owned land that is open for ,
hunting, or land contributing surface water to the New York City water,
supply.
Section two amends section 11-0323 of the environmental conservation law
and requires that information about lead ammunition prohibitions be
included in the syllabus provided to every person whom a hunting, trap-
ping or fishing license is issued.
Section three establishes the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
The naturally occurring metal lead has been known for some time to be
highly toxic to the human body. Lead poisoning is especially dangerous
to children, whose bodies absorb lead more readily than adults. Accord-
ing to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, children's expo-
sure to lead increases the risk for brain and nervous system damage, and
can lead to many learning and behavioral problems, including a lowering
of IQ. Extreme levels of exposure can lead to seizures, coma, and death.
Although lead has been taken out of many products over the past few
decades most notably paint and gasoline - lead is still the most common
material used for hunting ammunition. When a lead bullet strikes an
animal, the round fragments into many small pieces, not all of which are
easily detectable by the naked eye. These lead fragments can then be
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2084--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, L. ROSENTHAL, FAHY, COLTON, JACOBSON,
STECK, PAULIN, BURDICK, KELLES, EPSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Environmental Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
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 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
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 a hunting, trapping or fishing license is issued. Each such licensee
2 shall be entitled to one copy of such syllabus.
3 § 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2025. Effective immediate-
4 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
5 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
6 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
