S 10041

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                                   10041
                             I N  S E N A T E
                              April 24, 2026
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 Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- (at request of the Department of
   Environmental  Conservation)  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conser-
   vation
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   extending  the  authority of the department of environmental conserva-
   tion to manage blueback herring
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
   Section  1.  Paragraph  g of subdivision 1 of section 13-0339-a of the
 environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 313 of the laws of
 2023, is amended to read as follows:
   g. blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis)  until  December  thirty-first,
 two thousand [twenty-six] TWENTY-NINE,
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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