EMERGENCY BILL
File Code: Hunting and Fishing
Crossfiled with: SENATE BILL 206
- Sponsored By:
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Delegates Elmore, Cane, Eckardt, Haddaway, Mathias, Smigiel, and Walkup
- Entitled:
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Natural Resources - Soft Crabs - Bycatch
Requiring specified regulations adopted by the Department of Natural
Resources to establish a permissible bycatch for soft crabs to be no
more restrictive than the permissible bycatch for hard crabs and
peeler crabs; creating an exception to the prohibition against
possessing a bycatch of undersized soft crabs; requiring the
Department of Natural Resources to adopt regulations relating to a
bycatch for soft crabs; and making the Act an emergency measure.
House Action
- 2/6
- First Reading Environmental Matters
- 2/7
- Hearing 2/28 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/19
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
- 3/16
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/17
- Third Reading Passed (137-0)
- 4/4
- House Concur - Senate Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (140-0)
- Passed Enrolled
Senate Action
- 3/21
- First Reading Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 4/5
- Favorable Report by Education Health and Environmental Affairs
- 4/1
- Favorable
- Special Order later today (Senator Pinsky) Adopted
- Floor Amendment (Senator Stoltzfus) Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 4/2
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (46-0)
Action after passage in House and Senate
- 5/17
- Approved by the Governor
- - Chapter 607
Sponsored by:
- Delegate D. Page Elmore, District 38A
- Delegate Rudolph C. Cane, District 37A
- Delegate Adelaide C. Eckardt, District 37
- Delegate Jeannie Haddaway, District 37B
- Delegate James N. Mathias, Jr., District 38B
- Delegate Michael D. Smigiel, Sr., District 36
- Delegate Mary Roe Walkup, District 36
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- Crabs
- Fish and Fishing -see also- Aquaculture; Gill Nets
- Natural Resources, Department of
- Rules and Regulations
Bill affects the following Statute:
- Natural Resources
- (
4-809
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled, Chapter
- Fiscal and Policy Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments (Displayed in PDF Format):
House
- Number: 390916/01 Offered on: March 19, 2007 at:
8:17 p.m. Status: Adopted
Senate
- Number: 173627/02 Offered on: April 5, 2007 at:
7:05 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
- March 17, 2007: Third Reading Passed (137-0)
- April 4, 2007: Third Reading Passed (140-0)
Senate
- April 2, 2007: Third Reading Passed (46-0)
