S7421 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Provides that no person shall engage in the operation of a marine hatchery or in the off-bottom or on-bottom culture of any species belonging to the order Octopoda unless for scientific or educational purposes for the purpose of human consumption.
- Title
- Prohibits octopus farming
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- Passed Assembly
- Latest action date
- 2026-06-04
- Introduced
- 2025-04-15
- Active version
- S7421B
- Same as
- A8043
- Law section
- Environmental Conservation Law
Sponsors
Co-sponsors
Heard in committee
- Codes NY State Assembly committee
- Environmental Conservation NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A8043 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Substituted for
- A8043 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Environmental Conservation, 2026-05-20 First reading