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NY A08289
Bill
Status
12/19/2025
Primary Sponsor
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
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AI Summary
- Expands tribal land trespass law to prohibit non-members from entering or remaining on Indian lands without authorization, adding "citizens or members" and "authorized guests or lessees" as permitted persons
- Increases jail time for repeat trespassers from 30 days to 90 days and adds drug trafficking as a specific violation subject to confiscation of materials and equipment
- Requires county district attorneys to file complaints and pursue removal of intruders upon written application from a designated tribal representative, rather than requiring majority approval from chiefs or councilors
- Makes tribal determinations that a person is an intruder "dispositive of the matter," giving tribes final authority over trespass decisions
- Authorizes the Governor, State Police superintendent, county sheriffs, or Salamanca police chief to enter law enforcement agreements with the Seneca Nation governing criminal enforcement, offenses, penalties, deputization, and extradition on Seneca lands
Legislative Description
Relates to intrusions upon lands owned or occupied by any nation, tribe or band of Indians, and to drug trafficking activities within Indian lands; provides that the district attorney of a county in which reservation lands are situated, upon application of a person designated by the laws of a nation, tribe or band to make such application, shall make complaint of intrusions on such lands and cause intruders to be removed; provides that the governor, the superintendent of state police, a sheriff of a county that includes lands of the Seneca nation, or the chief of police of the city of Salamanca, may, at the request of the Seneca nation, enter into an agreement with the Seneca nation governing the terms and conditions of criminal law enforcement activities within the nation's Indian County lands; provides that such agreements shall be given full force and effect by the courts of the state.
Last Action
approval memo.46
12/19/2025