S10045 • 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: Nathalia Fernandez
Last action: 2026-05-28
Official status: Passed Assembly
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 FOR A11442
2026-05-28 Assembly
ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.208
2026-05-28 Assembly
PASSED ASSEMBLY
2026-05-28 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2026-05-13 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-05-13 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-05-13 Assembly
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION
2026-05-07 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-06 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-05 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.957
2026-04-24 Senate
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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                                          10045

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     April 24, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. FERNANDEZ -- (at request of the Department of Envi-
          ronmental 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  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