Bill Text: NY S09318 | 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: (Introduced) 2024-05-23 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S09318 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09318-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9318

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 10, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- (at request of the Department of Environ-
          mental  Conservation)  --  read  twice  and  ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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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