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A05139 Summary:

BILL NOA05139
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORBrown K
 
COSPNSRMcDonough, Manktelow, DeStefano
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §387, Ag & Mkts L
 
Requires residential property owners to register backyard chicken coops for the purposes of containing disease outbreaks affecting such chicken coops.
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A05139 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A5139
 
SPONSOR: Brown K
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to regis- tration of backyard chicken coops   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: Requires residential property owners to register backyard chicken coops   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1: The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new section 385. Section 2: Establishes the effective date.   JUSTIFICATION: Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of New York- ers have turned to the practice of building chicken coops in order to have a fresh and cheap source of chicken eggs While these backyard chicken coops are beneficial to families, they also pose a risk for both public health and the poultry industry through the transmission of avian flu. The recent outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI A) in the Mid-Western United States have proven catastrophic for the poul- try industry, leaving approximately 40 million chickens and 8 million turkeys dead and costing the poultry industry approximately 3.3 billion dollars, as well as over 950 million taxpayer dollars from the United States Department of Agriculture in dealing with these outbreaks. This highly infectious disease not only has the potential to severely hurt New York's 86-million-dollar poultry industry, but also become another public health crisis. HPAI A has already been detected in various wild birds, mammals and in some cases humans who had recent contact with poultry. While human infections are rare, the mortality rates can be as high as nearly 50 percent. This bill will require the registration of backyard chicken coops with the local municipality to help monitor outbreaks of avian diseases and more effectively track same in order to combat their spread and protect both New Yorkers and the poultry indus- try.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2023-24: A.6187   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: None   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately
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A05139 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5139
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 12, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Agriculture
 
        AN  ACT  to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to regis-
          tration of backyard chicken coops
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The agriculture and markets law is amended by adding a new
     2  section 387 to read as follows:
     3    § 387. Backyard chicken coop registration. 1. Any person  who  owns  a
     4  chicken  coop  on their residential property shall register such chicken
     5  coop with the municipality in which their property is located on a  form
     6  to  be  prescribed  by  the  commissioner.  Such  registration  shall be
     7  conducted within thirty days of establishing such chicken coop.
     8    2. Municipalities shall regularly send an updated list of  all  regis-
     9  tered  residential  chicken  coops  to the New York farm bureau. The New
    10  York farm bureau shall create and maintain an  online  database  of  all
    11  registered  residential chicken coops in the state and shall contact all
    12  residential property owners listed in such database upon the  documented
    13  outbreak of disease affecting residential chicken coops.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08056-01-5
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