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                                   5850
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 24, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GLICK,  BORES, SIMONE, LEE, COLTON, BURDICK,
   ROSENTHAL, EPSTEIN, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, DINOWITZ,  SIMON,  STECK,  DAVILA,
   SHIMSKY,  McDONOUGH, PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   prohibiting  the  participation of certain animals in traveling animal
   acts
 
   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 11-0541 to read as follows:
 § 11-0541. TRAVELING ANIMAL ACTS.
   1. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, NO PERSON  SHALL  ALLOW
 FOR THE PARTICIPATION OF A COVERED ANIMAL IN A TRAVELING ANIMAL ACT.
   2.  THE DEPARTMENT SHALL NOT ISSUE A PERMIT OR LICENSE, INCLUDING, BUT
 NOT LIMITED TO, AN EDUCATION OR EXHIBITION PERMIT OR  AN  ENDANGERED  OR
 THREATENED  SPECIES  LICENSE THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR THE PARTICIPATION OF A
 COVERED ANIMAL IN A TRAVELING ANIMAL ACT.
   3. THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO A PERFORMANCE THAT TAKES PLACE AT A
 NON-MOBILE, PERMANENT INSTITUTION OR OTHER FIXED FACILITY.
   4. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING  TERMS  SHALL  HAVE
 THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A)  "COVERED ANIMAL" SHALL MEAN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING ANIMALS, INCLUD-
 ING HYBRIDS THEREOF:
   (I) FELIDAE, BUT EXCLUDING DOMESTIC CATS;
   (II) KANGAROO;
   (III) NON-HUMAN PRIMATE;
   (IV) URSIDAE; AND
   (V) WALLABY.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (B) "MOBILE OR TRAVELING HOUSING FACILITY" SHALL MEAN  A  TRANSPORTING
 VEHICLE  SUCH  AS A TRUCK, TRAILER, OR RAILWAY CAR, USED TO TRANSPORT OR
 HOUSE ANIMALS WHILE TRAVELING FOR EXHIBITION OR OTHER PERFORMANCE.
   (C) "PERFORMANCE" SHALL MEAN ANY EXHIBITION OR PUBLIC SHOWING, PRESEN-
 TATION, DISPLAY, EXPOSITION, FAIR, ANIMAL ACT, CIRCUS, RIDE, TRADE SHOW,
 PETTING  ZOO,  CARNIVAL,  PARADE,  RACE, OR SIMILAR UNDERTAKING IN WHICH
 COVERED ANIMALS ARE REQUIRED TO PERFORM TRICKS, GIVE RIDES,  OR  PARTIC-
 IPATE  AS ACCOMPANIMENTS FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT, AMUSEMENT, OR BENEFIT OF
 A LIVE AUDIENCE.
   (D) "TRAVELING ANIMAL ACT"  SHALL  MEAN  ANY  PERFORMANCE  OF  COVERED
 ANIMALS  WHERE  SUCH  ANIMALS  ARE  TRANSPORTED  TO,  FROM,  OR  BETWEEN
 LOCATIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH PERFORMANCE, IN A MOBILE OR  TRAVELING
 HOUSING FACILITY.
   5.  A VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A CIVIL PENALTY
 OF NOT MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect December 31, 2026.