Legislative Report 11-12-25
PLEASE NOTE:
While some of these bills do not appear to have direct link to Conservation, they are an integral part of conservation in Western and ultimately New York State e.g. Fire-arm regulations, wind turbines and wind farms, term limits, recall bills, and salaries of elected state officials and legislators as well as some statewide insurance requirements are just a few of the crossovers we need to be aware of.
These bills are from legiscan.com. Here you can click on NY as home state and browse from day one of the current legislative session or search for a particular bill, from where you can read the bill, see who has sponsored the bill and where it currently stands in committees. “Spectrum” will tell you whether this was sponsored by one or both parties. “Status” will tell when it was introduced. “Action” will tell you the most recent action that has occurred on the proposal. “Pending” will tell you which committee it is currently in. “Sponsored” will tell you which legislators and their party affiliations sponsored the bill. “Summary” will give you a quick overview or title of the proposed bill. “History” will tell you where it has been since it was introduced. “Same As/Similar As” will show the legislative companion bill number, date of introduction and action in the companion NYS legislature.
Several proposed bills will appear more than once or seem to. This is because they have moved through several different committees in their corresponding chamber or have been amended or a version has been introduced in the other NYS Assembly or Senate Chamber.
Note: Replaces legislation A00544
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Passed on October 16 2025 – 100% progression
Action: 2025-10-16 – SIGNED CHAP.466
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]
Summary
Requires police officers to take temporary custody of firearms for not less than one hundred twenty hours when responding to reports of family violence.
History
| 2025-10-16 | Senate | SIGNED CHAP.466 |
| 2025-10-09 | Senate | DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR |
| 2025-06-11 | Assembly | returned to senate |
| 2025-06-11 | Assembly | passed assembly |
| 2025-06-11 | Assembly | ordered to third reading cal.54 |
| 2025-06-11 | Assembly | substituted for a544b |
| 2025-06-09 | Assembly | referred to codes |
| 2025-06-09 | Senate | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY |
| 2025-06-09 | Senate | REPASSED SENATE |
| 2025-05-27 | Senate | AMENDED ON THIRD READING 1985A |
| 2025-05-27 | Senate | VOTE RECONSIDERED – RESTORED TO THIRD READING |
| 2025-05-27 | Assembly | returned to senate |
| 2025-05-27 | Senate | RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY |
| 2025-05-13 | Assembly | referred to codes |
| 2025-05-13 | Senate | DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY |
| 2025-05-13 | Senate | PASSED SENATE |
| 2025-02-03 | Senate | ADVANCED TO THIRD READING |
| 2025-01-28 | Senate | 2ND REPORT CAL. |
| 2025-01-27 | Senate | 1ST REPORT CAL.182 |
| 2025-01-14 | Senate | REFERRED TO CODES |
Same As/Similar To
A00544 (Replaces) 2025-06-11 – substituted by s1985a
New York Assembly Bill
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Passed on October 16 2025 – 100% progression
Action: 2025-10-16 – signed chap.450
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Includes consideration of evidence of recent acts of aggravated cruelty to animals as a factor to be considered when determining whether grounds for a temporary extreme risk protection order exist.
History
| 2025-10-16 | Assembly | signed chap.450 |
| 2025-10-09 | Assembly | delivered to governor |
| 2025-06-11 | Senate | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY |
| 2025-06-11 | Senate | PASSED SENATE |
| 2025-06-11 | Senate | 3RD READING CAL.774 |
| 2025-06-11 | Senate | SUBSTITUTED FOR S5514 |
| 2025-04-01 | Senate | REFERRED TO JUDICIARY |
| 2025-04-01 | Assembly | delivered to senate |
| 2025-04-01 | Assembly | passed assembly |
| 2025-03-27 | Assembly | advanced to third reading cal.79 |
| 2025-03-25 | Assembly | reported |
| 2025-03-06 | Assembly | referred to codes |
Same As/Similar To
S05514 (Replaces) 2025-06-11 – SUBSTITUTED BY A6556
New York Assembly Bill 9150
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on October 17 2025 – 25% progression
Action: 2025-10-17 – referred to agriculture
Pending: Assembly Agriculture Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Makes aggravated cruelty to animals a class E violent felony offense; defines terms; makes technical changes
History
| 2025-10-17 | Assembly | referred to agriculture |
New York Assembly Bill 9210
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: Introduced on November 3 2025 – 25% progression
Action: 2025-11-03 – referred to election law
Pending: Assembly Election Law Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Allows any qualified person to apply for voter registration and enrollment by application made with an application for any hunting or fishing license.
History
| 2025-11-03 | Assembly | referred to election law |
Same As/Similar To
S01669 (Same As) 2025-01-13 – REFERRED TO ELECTIONS
New York Assembly Bill 9203
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: Introduced on November 3 2025 – 25% progression
Action: 2025-11-07 – to attorney-general for opinion
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Relates to the right of the people to bear and keep arms.
History
| 2025-11-07 | Assembly | to attorney-general for opinion |
| 2025-11-03 | Assembly | referred to codes |
New York Assembly Bill 9115
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on September 26 2025 – 25% progression
Action: 2025-11-05 – opinion referred to judiciary
Pending: Assembly Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Relates to the right to hunt, trap and fish; provides for regulation by the state.
History
| 2025-11-05 | Assembly | opinion referred to judiciary |
| 2025-10-10 | Assembly | to attorney-general for opinion |
| 2025-09-26 | Assembly | referred to environmental conservation |
Same As/Similar To
S02428 (Same As) 2025-01-31 – OPINION REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
New York Senate Bill 7200
Note: Replaces legislation A02163
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on November 12 2025 – 100% progression
Action: 2025-11-12 – SIGNED CHAP.501
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]
Summary
Relates to vintage snowmobile registrations for snowmobiles manufactured more than thirty years prior.
History
| 2025-11-12 | Senate | SIGNED CHAP.501 |
| 2025-11-03 | Senate | DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR |
| 2025-06-09 | Assembly | returned to senate |
| 2025-06-09 | Assembly | passed assembly |
| 2025-06-09 | Assembly | ordered to third reading rules cal.485 |
| 2025-06-09 | Assembly | substituted for a2163b |
| 2025-06-05 | Assembly | referred to ways and means |
| 2025-06-05 | Senate | DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY |
| 2025-06-05 | Senate | PASSED SENATE |
| 2025-05-27 | Senate | AMENDED ON THIRD READING 7200B |
| 2025-05-15 | Senate | ADVANCED TO THIRD READING |
| 2025-05-14 | Senate | 2ND REPORT CAL. |
| 2025-05-13 | Senate | 1ST REPORT CAL.1075 |
| 2025-04-17 | Senate | PRINT NUMBER 7200A |
| 2025-04-17 | Senate | AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION |
| 2025-04-03 | Senate | REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION |
Same As/Similar To
A02163 (Replaces) 2025-06-09 – substituted by s7200b
US Congress Senate Bill 3015
Status
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on October 16 2025 – 25% progression
Action: 2025-10-16 – Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Pending: Senate Environment And Public Works Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
A bill to amend the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 to reauthorize the water resources research and technology institutes program, and for other purposes.
Title
AWRC Act of 2025 Advancing Water Research and Collaboration Act of 2025
History
| 2025-10-16 | Senate | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. |
US Congress Senate Bill 2357
Status
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Introduced on July 17 2025 – 25% progression
Action: 2025-10-21 – Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
A bill to reauthorize the Young Fishermen’s Development Act, and for other purposes.
Title
Young Fishermen’s Development Extension Act
History
| 2025-10-21 | Senate | Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. |
| 2025-07-17 | Senate | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. |
US Congress House Bill 2316
Status
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: Engrossed on July 15 2025 – 50% progression
Action: 2025-10-23 – Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]
Summary
To amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to provide that interest on obligations held in the Federal aid to wildlife restoration fund shall become available for apportionment at the beginning of fiscal year 2033.
Title
Wetlands Conservation and Access Improvement Act of 2025
History
| 2025-10-23 | Senate | Message on Senate action sent to the House. |
| 2025-10-23 | Senate | Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. |
| 2025-10-23 | Senate | Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works discharged by Unanimous Consent. |
| 2025-07-15 | Senate | Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. |
| 2025-07-14 | House | On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. |
| 2025-07-14 | House | Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection. |
| 2025-07-14 | House | DEBATE – The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2316. |
| 2025-07-14 | House | Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H3224: 1) |
| 2025-07-14 | House | Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill. (text: CR H3224) |
| 2025-07-10 | House | Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 156. |
| 2025-07-10 | House | Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-191. |
| 2025-06-25 | House | Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent. |
| 2025-06-25 | House | Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held |
| 2025-06-25 | House | Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Discharged |
| 2025-04-08 | House | Subcommittee Hearings Held |
| 2025-04-01 | House | Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries. |
| 2025-03-25 | House | Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. |
| 2025-03-25 | House | Introduced in House |
US Congress House Bill 5868
Status
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)
Status: Introduced on October 28 2025 – 25% progression
Action: 2025-10-28 – Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Pending: House Energy And Commerce Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to provide grants under the Drinking Water Infrastructure Risk and Resilience Program for training programs relating to protecting public water systems from and responding to cyberattacks, and for other purposes.
Title
Water Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2025
History
| 2025-10-28 | House | Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. |
| 2025-10-28 | House | Introduced in House |
US Congress House Bill 5833
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on October 24 2025 – 25% progression
Action: 2025-10-24 – Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Pending: House Transportation And Infrastructure Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act with respect to additional subsidization, and for other purposes.
Title
Clean Water Affordability Ac
History
| 2025-10-24 | House | Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. |
| 2025-10-24 | House | Introduced in House |
US Congress Senate Bill 2878
Status
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on September 18 2025 – 25% progression
Action: 2025-10-29 – Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 229.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
A bill to reauthorize funding to monitor, assess, and research the Great Lakes Basin, and for other purposes.
Title
Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act
History
| 2025-10-29 | Senate | Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 229. |
| 2025-10-29 | Senate | Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Capito without amendment. Without written report. |
| 2025-10-29 | Senate | Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. |
| 2025-09-18 | Senate | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. |
US Congress House Bill 3692
Status
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-3)
Status: Introduced on June 3 2025 – 25% progression
Action: 2025-10-31 – Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 308.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
To reauthorize the Young Fishermen’s Development Act.
History
| 2025-10-31 | House | Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 308. |
| 2025-10-31 | House | Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-356. |
| 2025-09-17 | House | Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent. |
| 2025-09-17 | House | Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held |
| 2025-09-17 | House | Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Discharged |
| 2025-09-03 | House | Subcommittee Hearings Held |
| 2025-08-29 | House | Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries. |
| 2025-06-03 | House | Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. |
| 2025-06-03 | House | Introduced in House |
US Congress House Bill 2916
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on April 14 2025 – 25% progression
Action: 2025-10-31 – Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 307.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
To authorize, ratify, and confirm the Agreement of Settlement and Compromise to Resolve the Akwesasne Mohawk Land Claim in the State of New York, and for other purposes.
History
| 2025-10-31 | House | Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 307. |
| 2025-10-31 | House | Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-355. |
| 2025-09-17 | House | Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent. |
| 2025-09-17 | House | Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held |
| 2025-09-17 | House | Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs Discharged |
| 2025-06-11 | House | Subcommittee Hearings Held |
| 2025-06-04 | House | Referred to the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs. |
| 2025-04-14 | House | Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. |
| 2025-04-14 | House | Introduced in House |
