Assembly Bill A4077A

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the removal of species from the endangered and threatened species list

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A4077 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8750
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0535, En Con L

2019-A4077 - Summary

Requires the commissioner of the department of environmental conservation to include species designated by the Secretary of the Interior as endangered or threatened to the endangered and threatened species list.

2019-A4077 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4077
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
   removal of species from the endangered and threatened species list
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1  of  section  11-0535  of  the  environmental
 conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 706 of the laws of 2005, is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. For the purposes of this section, "endangered species"  shall  mean
 those  species  of fish, shellfish, crustacea and wildlife designated by
 the department, by regulation filed with  the  Secretary  of  State,  as
 seriously  threatened  with  extinction, "threatened species" shall mean
 those species of fish and wildlife  designated  by  the  department,  by
 regulation filed with the Secretary of State, which are likely to become
 endangered  species  within  the  foreseeable future throughout all or a
 significant portion of their range, and  "species  of  special  concern"
 shall  mean those species of fish and wildlife designated by the depart-
 ment, by regulation filed with the Secretary of State, which  are  found
 by the department to be at risk of becoming threatened in New York. Such
 regulation  shall include, but not be limited to, endangered and threat-
 ened species  as  so  designated  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior,
 provided,  however,  that  such  regulation shall take effect sixty days
 after it has been filed with  the  Secretary  of  State,  and  provided,
 further,  that  [the  commissioner  may  exclude any such species as the
 commissioner may determine after investigation to be  no  longer  endan-
 gered  or  threatened  from the restrictions of this section] ANY ENDAN-
 GERED OR THREATENED SPECIES AS SO DESIGNATED BY  THE  SECRETARY  OF  THE
 INTERIOR  SHALL  BE SUBJECT TO THE RESTRICTIONS OF THIS SECTION, REGARD-
 LESS OF THE REMOVAL OF SUCH DESIGNATION AS AN ENDANGERED  OR  THREATENED
 SPECIES BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE COMMIS-
 SIONER  DETERMINES,  AFTER INVESTIGATION, THAT SUCH SPECIES IS NO LONGER
 ENDANGERED OR THREATENED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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2019-A4077A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8750
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0535, En Con L

2019-A4077A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the commissioner of the department of environmental conservation to include species designated by the Secretary of the Interior as endangered or threatened to the endangered and threatened species list.

2019-A4077A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  4077--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BARRETT, ORTIZ, COLTON, L. ROSENTHAL, GOTTFRIED,
   STECK -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Environmental
   Conservation  -- recommitted to the Committee on Environmental Conser-
   vation in accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
   removal of species from the endangered and threatened species list
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  11-0535 of the environmental
 conservation law, as amended by chapter 706 of  the  laws  of  2005,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1.  For  the purposes of this section, "endangered species" shall mean
 those species of fish, shellfish, crustacea and wildlife  designated  by
 the  department,  by  regulation  filed  with the Secretary of State, as
 seriously threatened with extinction, "threatened  species"  shall  mean
 those  species  of  fish  and  wildlife designated by the department, by
 regulation filed with the Secretary of State, which are likely to become
 endangered species within the foreseeable future  throughout  all  or  a
 significant  portion  of  their  range, and "species of special concern"
 shall mean those species of fish and wildlife designated by the  depart-
 ment,  by  regulation filed with the Secretary of State, which are found
 by the department to be at risk of becoming threatened in New York. Such
 regulation shall include, but not be limited to, endangered and  threat-
 ened  species  as  so  designated  by  the  Secretary  of  the Interior,
 provided, however, that such regulation shall  take  effect  sixty  days
 after  it  has  been  filed  with  the Secretary of State, and provided,
 further, that [the] ANY ENDANGERED OR THREATENED SPECIES  AS  SO  DESIG-
 NATED  BY  THE  SECRETARY  OF  THE  INTERIOR  SHALL  BE  SUBJECT  TO THE
 RESTRICTIONS OF THIS SECTION, REGARDLESS OF THE REMOVAL OF  SUCH  DESIG-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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