Bill Text: NY A08157 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting the issuance of permits authorizing the use of wild animals in circuses; excepts an accredited zoo and a wildlife sanctuary.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-12 - REFERRED TO RULES [A08157 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08157-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8157--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 31, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, L. ROSENTHAL, GLICK, COLTON -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on  Environmental  Conservation  --
          recommitted  to the Committee on Environmental Conservation in accord-
          ance with Assembly Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          prohibiting  the  issuance  of  permits  authorizing  the  use of wild
          animals in circuses
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
     2  new section 11-0541 to read as follows:
     3  § 11-0541. Prohibition on the issuance of permits authorizing the use of
     4               wild animals in circuses.
     5    1. The department shall not issue a permit or license, including,  but
     6  not  limited  to,  an education or exhibition permit or an endangered or
     7  threatened species license, authorizing the exhibition of a wild  animal
     8  in  a  circus, notwithstanding a valid United States department of agri-
     9  culture license.
    10    2. Such a prohibition shall not apply to:
    11    a. an accredited zoo accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquari-
    12  ums;
    13    b. a wildlife sanctuary.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2021.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11926-03-8