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History
- Signed chap.225
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.598
- Substituted for A8218
- Referred to governmental operations
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 63–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.1749
- Referred to rules
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Relates to the management and conservation of horseshoe crabs
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Steven Englebright
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S5922
Title of bill
An act in relation to the management and conservation of horseshoe crabs; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
Purpose
To require the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to consider certain conservation criteria when managing horseshoe crabs.
Summary of provisions
This bill would require the DEC, in its management plan of horseshoe crabs, to consider certain criteria.
Justification
The horseshoe crab has sometimes been called a living fossil, having remained relatively unchanged in appearance for 350 million years. Horseshoe crabs are an important part of the ecosystem, serving as a food source for migratory shorebirds, including red knots, functioning as bait for the taking of whelk and American eel and providing an important contribution to medicine with a clotting agent in their blood called Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate (LAL) for which there is currently no synthetic substitute. This legislation recognizes the importance of horseshoe crabs and requires DEC to examine certain conservation and management issues.
Legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately; and be deemed repealed December 31, 2017.
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