STATE OF NEW YORK
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9296
IN SENATE
February 25, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- 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 the
transfer of a lifetime license outside of family
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 11-0704 of the environmental
2 conservation law, as added by chapter 507 of the laws of 2010, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 4. the person to whom such license is to be transferred is related to
5 the person to whom such license was issued by the first degree of
6 consanguinity, or legal marriage to such person, or is the adopted child
7 or step child or step sibling of such person; with the exception of
8 permits or licenses for whelk, crab or horseshoe crab, food fish,
9 including summer flounder (fluke) and striped bass which may be trans-
10 ferred to persons outside of persons described in this subdivision. Such
11 transfers shall meet the following requirements, including, but not
12 limited to:
13 (a) fifty-one percent of gross income shall be derived from commercial
14 fishing for three consecutive years before becoming eligible. For the
15 purposes of this section, "commercial fishing" means revenue generated
16 from catching, harvesting or farming aquatic life, including but not
17 limited to, fish, shellfish and crustaceans, for sale to generate
18 profit; and
19 (b) transfer of such permits and/or licenses may occur only one time
20 per year; and
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
22 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15015-02-6
