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legislation/us/states/ny/2017-2018/s-7297.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to the taking of crabs"
+description: "Changes the department of environmental conservation's requirements from cooperating with municipalities to consulting with municipalities regarding harvest closure of crabs."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2017-2018"
+identifier: "S 7297"
+citation: "New York S 7297 (2017-2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["LAVALLE"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-05"
+last_action: "2018-04-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ceb120f-c5f0-432e-925b-4a116be4c826"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S7297"
+source_hash: "800e502c009478f9a43f46b3bdc75ca3a89595ab558c7ff5d83a465b32b823fb"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York S 7297 (2017-2018) — Relates to the taking of crabs
+
+Changes the department of environmental conservation's requirements from cooperating with municipalities to consulting with municipalities regarding harvest closure of crabs.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S7297 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S7297&term=2017&Text=Y)
+2. **S7297 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S7297)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Vote — **135–0** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
+- Rules Vote — **25–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- LAVALLE — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-05** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-08** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.25
+- **2018-01-08** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2018-01-08** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2018-01-08** REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-22** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8918
+- **2018-01-22** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.613
+- **2018-01-22** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2018-01-22** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2018-04-06** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-04-18** SIGNED CHAP.21 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8ceb120f-c5f0-432e-925b-4a116be4c826`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+