Senate Bill S7767

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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Current Bill Status - On Floor Calendar

  • 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-S7767 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8428
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-1303, En Con L

2025-S7767 (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-S7767 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7767 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7767
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. MAY -- (at request of the Department of Environmental
   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 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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