Bill Text: NY A10115 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage the American eel from December 31, 2016 to December 31, 2019.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-21 - signed chap.144 [A10115 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10115-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10115
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 11, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE, ENGLEBRIGHT -- (at request of the Depart-
          ment  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 the American eel
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  b of subdivision 1 of section 13-0339-a of the
     2  environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 160 of the laws of
     3  2014, is amended to read as follows:
     4    b. American eel (Anguilla rostrata) until December  thirty-first,  two
     5  thousand [sixteen] nineteen,
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14512-01-6