Assembly Bill A5181

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to management, development, and funding of the commercial shellfish aquaculture industry

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A5181 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Agriculture
Law Section:
Agriculture and Markets Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §16, Ag & Mkts L; amd §§13-0105 & 13-0350, En Con L; amd §83, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A7528

2025-A5181 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2025-A5181 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5181
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2-a  of  section  16  of the agriculture and
 markets law, as added by chapter 124 of the laws of 1983, is amended  to
 read as follows:
   2-a.  [Aid]  ESTABLISH  A  DIRECTOR  OF  AQUACULTURAL AND MARICULTURAL
 RESOURCES POSITION TO AID, IN COOPERATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOM-
 IC DEVELOPMENT, in the promotion and marketing of finfish and  shellfish
 derived from commercial fishing or aquacultural activities and cooperate
 with  fishing and aquaculture associations or corporations organized for
 any or all such purposes.
   § 2. Subparagraph 7 of paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  1  of  section
 13-0105  of  the environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 365
 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
   (7) the state shall investigate and encourage the development of aqua-
 culture of economically important species, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED  TO
 SHELLFISH,  both  to  relieve pressure on and enhance wild stocks and to
 provide economic  opportunity  AND  SUPPORT  THE  GROWTH  OF  INDUSTRIES
 INVOLVED  WITH  AQUACULTURE,  MARICULTURE,  OR THE COMMERCIAL AND RECRE-
 ATIONAL HARVESTING OF MARINE RESOURCES;
   § 3. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 4 of section 13-0350 of the environ-
 mental conservation law, as amended by chapter 365 of the laws of  1994,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (d) To assist the department's efforts to expand the available sources
 of  income  for  the  marine resources account and advise the department
 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.
                                                            LBD08507-01-5

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