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Home/Bills/S 1516New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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S 1516: Makes technical corrections to the environmental conservation law, providing for misdemeanor penalties for hunting, trapping, or fishing without a valid license.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 8, 2026

What S 1516 does, verified January 8, 2026

The bill aims to make technical corrections to the environmental conservation law. It proposes to amend the law to increase misdemeanor penalties for individuals who hunt, trap, or fish without a valid license. The proposed penalties include imprisonment for up to 90 days or a fine of at least $500 and no more than $1,000. The changes will take effect immediately.

Bill journey
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Last action: REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION (2026-01-07)Alert me
Recent actions2 total · showing 2
Jan. 07, 2026REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Jan. 10, 2025REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 10, 2025 · 226 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1516 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 making technical corrections providing for misdemeanor penalties for hunting, trapping, or fishing without a valid license The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 71-0921 of the environmental 2 conservation law, as added by chapter 532 of the laws of 2019, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 14. Violation of [subparagraph one, two or four of paragraph b of 5 subdivision one] subdivision four of section 11-0719 of this chapter 6 involving the revocation and suspension of hunting, trapping, or fishing 7 licenses. Each such misdemeanor shall be punishable by imprisonment for 8 not more than ninety days, or by a fine of not less than five hundred 9 dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by both such imprisonment 10 and fine. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01900-01-5 
Text of S 1516 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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