S 1504: Removes restrictions on crossbow size and draw weight when used for hunting.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1504 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. O'MARA -- 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 removing restrictions on crossbow size and draw weight when used for hunting The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph 9 of paragraph b of subdivision 4 of section 2 11-0901 of the environmental conservation law, as added by section 6 of 3 part EE of chapter 55 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as 4 follows: 5 (9) with a crossbow unless [such crossbow shall consist of a bow and 6 string, either compound or recurve, that launches a minimum fourteen 7 inch bolt, not including point, mounted upon a stock with a trigger that 8 holds the string and limbs under tension until released. The] the trig- 9 ger unit of such crossbow [must have] has a working safety. [The minimum 10 limb width of such crossbow shall be seventeen inches, have a minimum 11 peak draw weight of one hundred pounds and a maximum peak draw weight of 12 two hundred pounds. The minimum overall length of such crossbow from 13 buttstock to front of limbs shall be twenty-four inches.] 14 § 2. Subparagraph 9 of paragraph c of subdivision 4 of section 11-0901 15 of the environmental conservation law, as added by section 7 of part EE 16 of chapter 55 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows: 17 (9) with a crossbow unless [such crossbow shall consist of a bow and 18 string, either compound or recurve, that launches a minimum fourteen 19 inch bolt, not including point, mounted upon a stock with a trigger that 20 holds the string and limbs under tension until released. The] the trig- 21 ger unit of such crossbow [must have] has a working safety. [The minimum 22 limb width of such crossbow shall be seventeen inches, have a minimum 23 peak draw weight of one hundred pounds and a maximum peak draw weight of 24 two hundred pounds. The minimum overall length of such crossbow from 25 buttstock to front of limbs shall be twenty-four inches.] 26 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01906-01-5