STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9304

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 13, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  THOMAS -- 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 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 235 of the laws of
     3  2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    b. American eel (Anguilla rostrata) until December  thirty-first,  two
     5  thousand [twenty-two] twenty-five,
     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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