Bill Text: NY S05408 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S05408 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05408-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5408
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 30, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sens. MARTINEZ, BOYLE -- 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 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 December 31, 2020.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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