S 7550: Allows the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in tracking big game that are dead, wounded or injured.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7550 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE April 22, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- 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 allowing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to track dead, wounded or injured big game 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 11-0936 to read as follows: 3 § 11-0936. Unmanned aerial vehicles. 4 Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department 5 may by regulation provide for the certification of unmanned aerial vehi- 6 cles and may authorize the use of such unmanned aerial vehicles by 7 persons licensed by the department to track and find dead, wounded or 8 injured big game, and for the certification of unmanned aerial vehicles 9 and may authorize the use of such unmanned aerial vehicles by persons 10 licensed by the department to track bear pursuant to subdivision one of 11 section 11-0521 of this article. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 14 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 15 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 16 on or before such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01298-01-5