Assembly Bill A3330

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the importation of live bait fish and provides penalties for failure to comply with such prohibition

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A3330 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§11-1703 & 71-0921, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10093

2025-A3330 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the importation of live bait fish; provides penalties for failure to comply with such prohibition.

2025-A3330 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3330
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   prohibiting the importation of bait fish into the state
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 11-1703 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8. NO PERSON SHALL IMPORT INTO THE STATE ANY LIVE BAIT FISH AS DEFINED
 IN  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF SECTION 11-1315 OF THIS ARTICLE, FOR THE USE OF
 BAIT FISHING IN INLAND WATERS.
   § 2. Section 71-0921 of the environmental conservation law is  amended
 by adding a new subdivision 15 to read as follows:
   15.  ANY  PERSON  WHO VIOLATES SUBDIVISION EIGHT OF SECTION 11-1703 OF
 THIS CHAPTER SHALL  BE  GUILTY  OF  A  CLASS  A  MISDEMEANOR  AND,  UPON
 CONVICTION  THEREOF,  SHALL  BE  PUNISHED BY A FINE NOT TO EXCEED TWENTY
 DOLLARS FOR EACH FISH UNLAWFULLY POSSESSED.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04227-01-5

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