A 1898: Prohibits using toxic ammunition in the taking of wildlife; allows any federally approved nontoxic ammunition in the taking of wildlife.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1898 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, JACOBSON, KELLES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to prohibiting the use of toxic ammunition in the taking of wildlife The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 11-0901 of the environmental 2 conservation law is amended by adding a new paragraph h to read as 3 follows: 4 h. Wildlife shall not be taken with the use of any toxic ammunition, 5 including lead ammunition. Wildlife shall be taken using only any feder- 6 ally approved nontoxic ammunition. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 8 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05323-01-5