STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
May 13, 2026
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Buttenschon)
-- (at request of the Department of Environmental 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 the American eel
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 13-0339-a of the
2 environmental conservation law, as amended by chapter 203 of the laws of
3 2025, is amended to read as follows:
4 b. American eel (Anguilla rostrata) until December thirty-first, two
5 thousand [twenty-six] twenty-nine,
6 § 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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