S10566 • 2025

Extends provisions related to the regulation of the amount of Jonah crabs that may be taken

Active

The official status still shows this bill as active or still awaiting another formal step.

Sponsor: Monica Martinez
Last action: 2026-06-04
Official status: Senate Floor Calendar
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Extends provisions related to the regulation of the amount of Jonah crabs that may be taken

Extends provisions related to the regulation of the amount of Jonah crabs that may be taken Extends provisions related to the regulation of the amount of Jonah crabs that may be taken for an additional two years.

What This Bill Does

Extends provisions related to the regulation of the amount of Jonah crabs that may be taken Extends provisions related to the regulation of the amount of Jonah crabs that may be taken for an additional two years.

Limits and Unknowns

This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

2026-06-04 Senate
SUBSTITUTED BY A11377
2026-05-28 Senate
COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-05-28 Senate
ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1443
2026-05-26 Senate
REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

Official Summary Text

Extends provisions related to the regulation of the amount of Jonah crabs that may be taken
Extends provisions related to the regulation of the amount of Jonah crabs that may be taken for an additional two years.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

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

                                          10566

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 26, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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  provisions related to the regulation of the amount of Jonah
          crabs that may be taken

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1-a  of section 13-0331 of the environmental
     2  conservation law, as added by chapter  260  of  the  laws  of  2024,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    1-a.  The  department  may,  until December thirty-first, two thousand
     5  [twenty-six] TWENTY-EIGHT, fix by regulation the limit  of  Jonah  crabs
     6  that  may  be  taken  for  commercial purposes by commercial crab permit
     7  holders and by holders of New York commercial lobster licenses  provided
     8  that  such  regulations shall be consistent with the compliance require-
     9  ments of applicable fishery management plans  adopted  by  the  Atlantic
    10  States  Marine  Fisheries  Commission  and with applicable provisions of
    11  fishery management plans adopted pursuant to the Federal Fishery Conser-
    12  vation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. section 1800 et seq.).
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15893-01-6