Pots Off The Reef Part II

[Skolmann]

OK, the Bill has been introduced to the Assembly's Agricultural and Natural Resources Committee and the Senate's Environmental Committee.

Almost all the links below will work!!

The bill numbers for this year are

A1519 Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Agriculture and Natural Resources


Identical Bill Number: S336


Last Session Bill Number: A3986 S2635


Rible, David P. as Primary Sponsor
Albano, Nelson T. as Co-Sponsor
Wolfe, David W. as Co-Sponsor
Holzapfel, James W. as Co-Sponsor
Diegnan, Patrick J., Jr. as Co-Sponsor
McHose, Alison Littell as Co-Sponsor
Greenwald, Louis D. as Co-Sponsor


1/8/2008 Introduced, Referred to Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
Introduced - 2 pages PDF Format HTML Format


S336 Prohibits the use of certain fishing gear on artificial reefs.
Environment


Identical Bill Number: A1519


Last Session Bill Number: A3986 S2635

Kean, Sean T. as Primary Sponsor
Van Drew, Jeff as Co-Sponsor

1/8/2008 Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment Committee
Introduced - 2 pages PDF Format HTML Format

[ped579]

Lets see what they can screw up this time.

Maybe, if we all start shouting at the same time, starting now, they will listen being this is a year where a lot of new people are running for office and they are noticing early on that there is a big block of votes just waiting to be harvested.

Paul

[njdiver]

Here are who needs to be contacted to start the bills rolling:

Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee

(Group D)
Fisher, Douglas H. (D) Chair District 3
Albano, Nelson T. (D) Vice-Chair District 1
Amodeo, John F. (R) District 2
Conaway, Herb (D) District 7
Karrow, Marcia A. (R) District 23


Senate Environment Committee
(Group 3)

Smith, Bob - Chair (D) District 17
Van Drew, Jeff - Vice-Chair (D) District 1
Adler, John H. (D) District 6
Bateman, Christopher (R) District 16
Ciesla, Andrew R. (R) District 10
Gordon, Robert M. (D) District 38

[IrishAyes]

Thanks for the info.  Let's get the ball rolling on this again.   

[njdiver]

Senate Environment
Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 1:00 PM
Meeting - Committee Room 10, Third Floor, State House Annex, Trenton, NJ
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S75 Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs-estab SEN 1/8/2008
S336 Fishing gear on artificial reefs-proh. SEN 1/8/2008


They might have to move it to another larger room on the first floor.

[IrishAyes]

Nice post NJDiver, keep us posted, please.   

[njdiver]

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They moved it:

Senate Environment Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 1:00 PM Meeting - Committee Room 6, First Floor, State House Annex, Trenton, NJ

Bill AbstractCurrent StatusLDOA

S75 Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs-estab SEN1/8/2008
S336 Fishing gear on artificial reefs-proh. SEN1/8/2008
S480 Soil contamination on sch. prop-concernsDiscussion Only SEN1/8/2008
S717 Underground storage tanks-concernsDiscussion Only SEN1/8/2008
S924 Coastal region-concernsDiscussion Only SEN1/28/2008
S1166 Stormwater util. sys.-concernsDiscussion Only SEN2/14/2008
S1167 Land-recreation & conserv. purpose;$8.4M SEN2/14/2008
S1168 Open space, park devel.;$54.917M SEN2/14/2008

[njdiver]

After a long afternoon, with seven other Bills ahead of ours and near two hours of testimony the Senate Environment Committee passed S336 on to the full Senate for its first reading. Step one in another long Legislative Process.

[IrishAyes]

NJ, was there any testimony opposing the bill?

[njdiver]

For anyone who would like to listen to the testimony:


http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/media/archive_audio2.asp?KEY=SEN&SESSION=2008


Click on Listen for Thursday, February 21, 2008.

Move the bar to 1:05:30 for the start of the testimony on S336.

[IrishAyes]

Great link NJDiver.  I am at the end of the first hour of testimony.  Very interesting.
Thanks for posting it.