Bill Text: NY A10347 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage American lobster to December 31, 2027.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-28 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A10347 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10347-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10347

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 18, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Glick) --
          (at request of the Department of Environmental Conservation)  --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          extending the authority of the department of  environmental  conserva-
          tion  to manage American lobster; and to amend chapter 305 of the laws
          of 2013 amending the environmental conservation law, relating  to  the
          management of American lobster, in relation to the effectiveness ther-
          eof

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 16 of  section  13-0329  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 122 of the laws of 2021, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    16. The department may,  until  December  thirty-first,  two  thousand
     5  [twenty-four] twenty-seven, adopt regulations for Atlantic States Marine
     6  Fisheries  Commission  Areas One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and Outer Cape
     7  Cod,  to  implement  conservation  measures  that  affect  landings   of
     8  lobsters,  pursuant  to  the  recommendations  of  the respective Area's
     9  Lobster Conservation Management Team as required by the Interstate Fish-
    10  ery Management Plan for American Lobster adopted by the Atlantic  States
    11  Marine Fisheries Commission.
    12    §  2. Section 6 of chapter 305 of the laws of 2013, amending the envi-
    13  ronmental conservation law,  relating  to  the  management  of  American
    14  lobster,  as  amended  by chapter 122 of the laws of 2021, is amended to
    15  read as follows:
    16    § 6. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have  become  a  law; provided that subdivision 17 of section 13-0329 of
    18  the environmental conservation law, as added by section two of this act,
    19  shall expire and be deemed repealed December 31, [2024] 2027.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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