Senate Bill S9438

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Allows the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in tracking big game

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation Committee


  • 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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2023-S9438 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8445
Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §11-0936, En Con L

2023-S9438 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in tracking big game that are dead, wounded or injured.

2023-S9438 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9438 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9438
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- 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
   allowing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to track dead, wounded or
   injured big game
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
 new section 11-0936 to read as follows:
 § 11-0936. UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES.
   NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER  PROVISION OF THIS CHAPTER, THE DEPARTMENT
 MAY BY REGULATION PROVIDE FOR THE CERTIFICATION OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHI-
 CLES AND MAY AUTHORIZE THE USE  OF  SUCH  UNMANNED  AERIAL  VEHICLES  BY
 PERSONS  LICENSED  BY  THE DEPARTMENT TO TRACK AND FIND DEAD, WOUNDED OR
 INJURED BIG GAME, AND FOR THE CERTIFICATION OF UNMANNED AERIAL  VEHICLES
 AND  MAY  AUTHORIZE  THE USE OF SUCH UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES BY PERSONS
 LICENSED BY THE DEPARTMENT TO TRACK BEAR PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE  OF
 SECTION 11-0521 OF THIS ARTICLE.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 on or before such date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13824-01-3



              

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