A11442 • 2025

Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to restrict the taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in special management areas

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Sponsor: Steven Otis
Last action: 2026-05-28
Official status: Assembly Floor Calendar
Effective date: Not listed

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Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to restrict the taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in special management areas

Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to restrict the taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in special management areas Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to restrict the taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in special management areas.

What This Bill Does

Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to restrict the taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in special management areas Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to restrict the taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in special management areas.

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Bill History

2026-05-28 Assembly
SUBSTITUTED BY S10045
2026-05-21 Assembly
REPORTED
2026-05-21 Assembly
RULES REPORT CAL.208
2026-05-21 Assembly
ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.208
2026-05-20 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
2026-05-15 Assembly
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Official Summary Text

Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to restrict the taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in special management areas
Extends the authority of the department of environmental conservation to restrict the taking of fish, shellfish and crustacea in special management areas.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11442

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      May 15, 2026
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Otis) -- (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 restrict the  taking  of  fish,  shellfish  and  crustacea  in
          special management areas

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3  of  section  13-0360  of  the  environmental
     2  conservation  law,  as  amended  by  chapter 315 of the laws of 2023, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department
     5  may, until December thirty-first, two thousand [twenty-six] TWENTY-NINE,
     6  adopt regulations restricting the taking of fish, shellfish and  crusta-
     7  cea  in  any  special management area designated pursuant to subdivision
     8  two of this section. Such regulations may restrict the manner of  taking
     9  of  fish, shellfish and crustacea in such areas and the landing of fish,
    10  shellfish and crustacea which have  been  taken  therefrom.  Such  regu-
    11  lations  shall  be  consistent  with all relevant federal and interstate
    12  fisheries management plans and with the  marine  fisheries  conservation
    13  and management policy set forth in section 13-0105 of this article.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15001-01-6