Bill Text - HB138 (2019)

Relative to rules pertaining to marine species managed under the Magnusson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.


Revision: Dec. 3, 2019, 9:50 a.m.

CHAPTER 78

HB 138 - FINAL VERSION

 

23May2019... 2215-EBA

2019 SESSION

19-0066

04/10

 

HOUSE BILL 138

 

AN ACT relative to rules pertaining to marine species managed under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Webb, Rock. 6; Rep. L'Heureux, Hills. 21

 

COMMITTEE: Fish and Game and Marine Resources

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill exempts from rulemaking requirements those fish and game rules governing marine species managed under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

 

AN ACT relative to rules pertaining to marine species managed under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

78:1  Authority for Regulating, Taking, Inspection, and Processing of Marine Species.  Amend RSA 211:62, V to read as follows:

V.  Rules pertaining to marine species managed under the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Compact under RSA 213 and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act under 16 U.S.C. section 1801, et seq., shall be exempt from the rulemaking requirements of RSA 541-A.  The executive director may adopt such rules after notice and hearing as determined by the executive director to be practicable.  Rules adopted under this paragraph shall be filed with the director of legislative services and with the joint legislative committee on administrative rules.

78:2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

 

Approved: June 18, 2019

Effective Date: August 17, 2019