Bill Text: NY A04077 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-09-21 - signed chap.170 [A04077 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A04077-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4077--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY 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: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 11-0535 of the environmental 2 conservation law, as amended by chapter 706 of the laws of 2005, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 1. For the purposes of this section, "endangered species" shall mean 5 those species of fish, shellfish, crustacea and wildlife designated by 6 the department, by regulation filed with the Secretary of State, as 7 seriously threatened with extinction, "threatened species" shall mean 8 those species of fish and wildlife designated by the department, by 9 regulation filed with the Secretary of State, which are likely to become 10 endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout all or a 11 significant portion of their range, and "species of special concern" 12 shall mean those species of fish and wildlife designated by the depart- 13 ment, by regulation filed with the Secretary of State, which are found 14 by the department to be at risk of becoming threatened in New York. Such 15 regulation shall include, but not be limited to, endangered and threat- 16 ened species as so designated by the Secretary of the Interior, 17 provided, however, that such regulation shall take effect sixty days 18 after it has been filed with the Secretary of State, and provided, 19 further, that [the] any endangered or threatened species as so desig- 20 nated by the Secretary of the Interior shall be subject to the 21 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. LBD08488-05-0A. 4077--A 2 1 nation as an endangered or threatened species by the Secretary of the 2 Interior. The commissioner may exclude any such species as the commis- 3 sioner may determine after investigation to be no longer endangered or 4 threatened from the restrictions of this section. 5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
