Bill Text: NY S06951 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage sharks.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-01 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7440 [S06951 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06951-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6951

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. CHU -- (at request of the Department of Environmental
          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 sharks

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  13-0338 of the environmental
     2  conservation law, as amended by section 1 of item N of subpart A of part
     3  XXX of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4    4. The department  may,  until  December  thirty-first,  two  thousand
     5  [twenty-three] twenty-six, fix by regulation measures for the management
     6  of  sharks, including size limits, catch and possession limits, open and
     7  closed seasons, closed areas, restrictions on the manner of  taking  and
     8  landing,  requirements for permits and eligibility therefor, recordkeep-
     9  ing requirements, requirements on the amount and type of fishing  effort
    10  and  gear,  and  requirements relating to transportation, possession and
    11  sale, provided that  such  regulations  are  no  less  restrictive  than
    12  requirements  set  forth  in this chapter and provided further that such
    13  regulations are consistent with the compliance requirements of  applica-
    14  ble fishery management plans adopted by the Atlantic States Marine Fish-
    15  eries  Commission  and  with applicable provisions of fishery management
    16  plans adopted pursuant to the Federal Fishery Conservation  and  Manage-
    17  ment Act (16 U.S.C. §1800 et seq.).
    18    § 2. 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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