Bill Text: NY A07528 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the management, development, and funding of the commercial shellfish aquaculture industry; establishes a director of aquacultural and maricultural resources position in the department of agriculture and markets.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to agriculture [A07528 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07528-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7528

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 25, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Agriculture

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  agriculture  and markets law, the environmental
          conservation law, and the state finance law, in relation to management
          and development of the commercial shellfish aquaculture industry

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2-a  of  section  16  of the agriculture and
     2  markets law, as added by chapter 124 of the laws of 1983, is amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    2-a.  [Aid]  Establish  a  director  of  aquacultural and maricultural
     5  resources position to aid, in cooperation with the department of econom-
     6  ic development, in the promotion and marketing of finfish and  shellfish
     7  derived from commercial fishing or aquacultural activities and cooperate
     8  with  fishing and aquaculture associations or corporations organized for
     9  any or all such purposes.
    10    § 2. Subparagraph 7 of paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  1  of  section
    11  13-0105  of  the environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 365
    12  of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
    13    (7) the state shall investigate and encourage the development of aqua-
    14  culture of economically important species, including but not limited  to
    15  shellfish,  both  to  relieve pressure on and enhance wild stocks and to
    16  provide economic  opportunity  and  support  the  growth  of  industries
    17  involved  with  aquaculture,  mariculture,  or the commercial and recre-
    18  ational harvesting of marine resources;
    19    § 3. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 4 of section 13-0350 of the environ-
    20  mental conservation law, as amended by chapter 365 of the laws of  1994,
    21  is amended to read as follows:
    22    (d) To assist the department's efforts to expand the available sources
    23  of  income  for  the  marine resources account and advise the department
    24  with respect to the needs of those industries involved with the  commer-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  cial  and recreational harvesting of marine resources, including but not
     2  limited to the commercial shellfish aquaculture industry.
     3    § 4. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph 2 and subparagraph (i) of paragraph
     4  3  of subdivision (a) of section 83 of the state finance law, as amended
     5  by chapter 512 of the laws of 1994, are amended to read as follows:
     6    (i) Moneys  collected  pursuant  to  [sections  13-0301,  13-0311  and
     7  13-0315]  article thirteen of the environmental conservation law and all
     8  fines and penalties collected pursuant to article  seventy-one  of  such
     9  law  for  illegal  acts  relating  to  shellfish shall be deposited in a
    10  special account within the conservation fund, to be known as the  marine
    11  resources  account, and shall be available to the department of environ-
    12  mental conservation, after appropriation, for:
    13    (A) the care, management, protection and enlargement  of  marine  fish
    14  and shellfish resources; and
    15    (B)  the  development  of  industries involved with the commercial and
    16  recreational harvesting of marine resources, including but  not  limited
    17  to the commercial shellfish aquaculture industry.
    18    (i)  Moneys  arising out of the application of article thirteen of the
    19  environmental conservation law shall be deposited in a  special  account
    20  within  the  conservation  fund,  to  be  known  as the marine resources
    21  account, and shall be  available  to  the  department  of  environmental
    22  conservation, after appropriation, for:
    23    (A)  the  care,  management, protection and enlargement of marine fish
    24  and shellfish resources; and
    25    (B) the development of industries involved  with  the  commercial  and
    26  recreational  harvesting  of marine resources, including but not limited
    27  to the commercial shellfish aquaculture industry.
    28    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.