Bill Text: NY A10347 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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: (Passed) 2024-07-03 - signed chap.188 [A10347 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A10347-Introduced.html
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13-0329 of 18 the environmental conservation law, as added by section two of this act, 19 shall expire and be deemed repealed December 31, [2024] 2027. 20 § 3.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. LBD14175-01-4