Bill Text: NY A07392 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage American lobster; makes provisions relating to the effectiveness thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-06-11 - signed chap.122 [A07392 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07392-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7392

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT -- 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 443 of  the  laws  of  2018,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    16.  The  department  may,  until  December thirty-first, two thousand
     5  [twenty-one] twenty-four, 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 443 of the laws of 2018, 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, [2021] 2024.
    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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