CHAPTER NUMBER: 385
EMERGENCY BILL
File Code: Hunting and Fishing
- Sponsored By:
-
Senators Collins, Frosh, Sfikas, Hollinger, Craig, McCabe,
Stoltzfus, Blount, Pinsky, Conway, Jimeno, Green, Middleton, and Hogan
- Entitled:
-
Hydraulic Clam Dredging
Prohibiting the use of a hydraulic clam dredge in any submerged
aquatic vegetation bed; requiring the Department of Natural Resources
to delineate specified existing submerged aquatic vegetation beds in
the waters of the State by using the most recent aerial surveys as
guidance; and requiring the Department to update the delineations as
necessary.
Senate Action
- 2/6
- First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 2/18
- Hearing 3/3 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/4
- Hearing cancelled
- Hearing 3/9 at 2:00 p.m.
- 3/16
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
- 3/17
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/19
- Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- 4/12
- Senate Concur - House Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- Passed Enrolled
- 5/12
- Signed by the Governor Chapter 385
House Action
- 3/20
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 3/25
- Hearing 4/1 at 1:00 p.m.
- 4/10
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 4/5
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/7
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (135-0)
- Sponsored by:
- Senator Michael J. Collins, District 6
- Senator Clarence W. Blount, District 41
- Senator Joan Carter Conway, District 43
- Senator David R. Craig, District 34
- Senator Brian E. Frosh, District 16
- Senator Leo E. Green, District 23
- Senator Patrick J. Hogan, District 39
- Senator Paula Colodny Hollinger, District 11
- Senator Philip C. Jimeno, District 31
- Senator Christopher J. McCabe, District 14
- Senator Thomas McLain Middleton, District 28
- Senator Paul G. Pinsky, District 22
- Senator Perry Sfikas, District 46
- Senator J. Lowell Stoltzfus, District 38
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CLAMS
- DREDGING -see also- WETLANDS
- EQUIPMENT -see also- MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT
- NATURAL RESOURCES -see also- FORESTS AND PARKS
- NATURAL RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF
- Bill affects the following Statute:
- Natural Resources
- (
4-1006.1
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled (PDF)
- Fiscal Note:
Available (PDF)
- Amendments:
- Senate
- Number: 734210/2 (PDF) Offered on: March 17, 1998 at:
10:45 a.m. Status: Adopted
- House
- Number: 559484/1 (PDF) Offered on: April 10, 1998 at:
10:22 a.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
- Senate
- March 19, 1998: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
- April 12, 1998: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
- House
- April 7, 1998: Third Reading Passed (135-0)
