What's happening
This bill lowers the blood alcohol content threshold for being considered intoxicated while hunting from 0.10% to 0.08%.
Why it matters
Aligns hunting intoxication limits with other state DUI laws. , potentially making enforcement and public understanding more consistent across activities involving public safety risks.
Could lead to more hunting-related arrests or citations for intoxication. , as the lower threshold means individuals may be considered legally intoxicated after fewer drinks, impacting hunting licenses and legal consequences.
Aims to reduce hunting accidents and injuries by tightening standards. , reflecting growing concern for public safety and possibly responding to data or incidents involving alcohol-impaired hunters.
Signals a broader legislative trend toward stricter alcohol regulations in outdoor and recreational activities. , which may affect cultural norms and expectations for responsible behavior in hunting communities.
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Lower Blood Alcohol for Hunters
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- Signed chap.388
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 55–6
- 3rd reading cal.311
- Substituted for S2417
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.153
- Reported
- Reported referred to codes
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- Referred to environmental conservation
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Lower Blood Alcohol for Hunters
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Anna Kaplan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3471
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to decreasing the amount of alcohol in a person's system necessary to be considered to be intoxicated while hunting
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 11-1201 of the environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 726 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
2. "Intoxicated condition" shall mean the presence of [.10] .08 of one per centum or more by weight of alcohol in a person's blood as shown by chemical analyses of his blood, breath, urine, or saliva made pursuant to section 11-1205 of this title. An "impaired condition" shall mean a state of impairment of a person's capacity to think or act correctly, or of a loss, even in part of a person's control of his physical or mental faculties due to his consumption of alcohol or use of a drug.
§ 2. Section 11-1207 of the environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 726 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows: § 11-1207. Evidence admitted in court.
Upon the trial of any action or proceeding arising out of conduct alleged to have been committed by any person arrested for a violation of any subdivision of section 11-1203 of this title, the court shall admit evidence of the amount of alcohol or drugs in the defendant's blood as shown by a test administered pursuant to the provisions of section 11-1205 of this title. Evidence that there was five-hundredths of one per centum or less by weight of alcohol in such person's blood is prima facie evidence that the ability of such person to engage in hunting without creating unreasonable risk of injury or death to himself or other human life was not impaired by the consumption of alcohol. Evidence that there was less than [one-tenth] eight one-hundredths of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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one per centum by weight of alcohol in such person's blood is prima facie evidence only that such person was not in an intoxicated condition due to the consumption of alcohol.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the first of September next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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