A 888: Prohibits the state's participation in artificial pheasant propagation activities; closes any state-owned or operated pheasant production facility.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 888 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, KELLES, DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to prohibiting the state's participation in artificial pheasant propa- gation activities 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 11-0532 to read as follows: 3 § 11-0532. Artificial pheasant propagation. 4 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, or any other 5 law, rule or regulation to the contrary, it shall be unlawful for any 6 department or division of this state, or any political subdivision ther- 7 eof, to participate in or to promote the hatching, breeding, rearing, 8 propagating, possessing, purchasing, distributing, transporting, sell- 9 ing, exchanging, or giving away of artificially propagated pheasants or 10 to support, financially or in any other manner, through the Conservation 11 Fund or any other source, any program or activity involving artificially 12 propagated pheasants. 13 2. Additionally, any state-owned or operated pheasant production 14 facility shall be closed. 15 3. Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect rights 16 provided under section 11-1901 of this article. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect February 28, 2026. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03233-01-5