North Carolina 2025-2026 Regular Session

North Carolina Senate Bill S15

Introduced

1/29/25

Refer

1/30/25

Adopt Bottlenose Dolphin/State Marine Mammal

No companion bills found.

An Act to Authorize the Commissioner of Marine Resources to Adopt Emergency Rules to Protect Certain Marine Mammals in Exceptional Circumstances

Marine Mammal Climate Change Protection Act of 2026

Requesting Congress to modify the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

State mammal.

Mammalian wildlife; separation and hybridization prohibited, exceptions.

Mammalian wildlife; separation and hybridization prohibited, exceptions.

Birds and mammals: nongame birds: mute swans.

Fur-bearing and nongame mammals: trapping licenses.

Urges immediate moratorium on sonar testing and wind turbine mapping due to recent unexplained deaths of marine life off the coast of New Jersey.

250 anniversary of the marines

No similar bills found.