Senate Bill S75

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting the release of certain balloons

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Archive: Last 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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2025-S75 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §11-0331, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7094
2019-2020: S2320
2021-2022: S2812
2023-2024: S605

2025-S75 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to prohibiting the release of certain balloons; prohibits a person from knowingly or intentionally releasing outdoors any balloons constructed of electrically conductive material filled with helium or a gas lighter than air; provides exceptions.

2025-S75 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    75
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. KAVANAGH, KRUEGER -- 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
   prohibiting the release of certain balloons

   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 11-0331 to read as follows:
 § 11-0331. RELEASE OF CERTAIN BALLOONS PROHIBITED.
   1.  NO  PERSON  SHALL  KNOWINGLY  RELEASE OR INTENTIONALLY CAUSE TO BE
 RELEASED OUTDOORS ANY BALLOON  CONSTRUCTED  OF  ELECTRICALLY  CONDUCTIVE
 MATERIAL AND FILLED WITH HELIUM OR A GAS LIGHTER THAN AIR.
   2.  NO  PERSON  SHALL  KNOWINGLY  RELEASE OR INTENTIONALLY CAUSE TO BE
 RELEASED OUTDOORS, WITHIN A TWENTY-FOUR HOUR PERIOD, TWENTY-FIVE OR MORE
 BALLOONS CONSTRUCTED OF NON-ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL AND  FILLED
 WITH HELIUM OR A GAS LIGHTER THAN AIR.
   3. THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO:
   (A)  BALLOONS  WHICH  ARE  USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF CARRYING SCIENTIFIC
 INSTRUMENTATION DURING THE PERFORMANCE OF AN EXPERIMENT OR TEST OR BY  A
 PERSON  ON BEHALF OF A GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY OR PURSUANT TO A GOVERNMENTAL
 CONTRACT FOR SCIENTIFIC OR METEOROLOGICAL PURPOSES; OR
   (B) MANNED HOT AIR BALLOONS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00076-01-5

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