Assembly Bill A8428

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the authority of the department of environmental conservation to manage fish

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A8428 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7767
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-1303, En Con L

2025-A8428 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Extends provisions of law relating to the authority of the department of environmental conservation to fix by regulation open seasons, size and catch limits and manner of taking fish from December 31, 2025 until December 31, 2028.

2025-A8428 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8428
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. MEEKS -- (at request of the Department of Envi-
   ronmental 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 manage fish

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 11-1303 of the environmental conservation  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  368  of  the  laws  of 2022, is amended to read as
 follows:
 § 11-1303. Open seasons, size and catch limits and manner of taking fish
              fixed by regulation.
   Notwithstanding any other provision of this  chapter,  the  department
 may,  until  December  thirty-first,  two thousand [twenty-five] TWENTY-
 EIGHT, fix by regulation open seasons, size and catch limits and  manner
 of  taking  of  all  species  of fish in all waters of the state, except
 marine fish named in subdivisions 2 and 3 of  section  13-0339  of  this
 chapter  and except to the extent that such open seasons, size and catch
 limits and manner of taking are otherwise specifically provided  for  in
 article 13 of this chapter.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09951-01-5

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