Senate Bill S1040

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to fees for hunting, fishing and trapping licenses

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S1040 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5594
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0715, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S6520, A10812
2013-2014: S1115, A5830
2015-2016: S3029, A3845
2019-2020: A4566
2021-2022: A4294
2023-2024: A2350

2017-S1040 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to fees for hunting, fishing and trapping licenses; provides free fishing, hunting and trapping licenses for certain members of the military.

2017-S1040 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1040 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1040
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. FUNKE, ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Veterans,  Homeland
   Security and Military Affairs
 
 AN  ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to fees
   for hunting, fishing and trapping licenses

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  11-0715 of the environmental
 conservation law, as amended by section 4 of part R of chapter 58 of the
 laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   2. A member of the Shinnecock tribe  or  the  Poospatuck  tribe  or  a
 member  of the six nations, residing on any reservation wholly or partly
 within the state, is entitled  to  receive  free  of  charge  a  fishing
 license,  a  hunting  license,  a  muzzle-loading  privilege, a trapping
 license, and a bowhunting privilege; a [resident of the state who is  a]
 member  of  the  United States armed forces in active service who is not
 stationed within the state and has not been herein  longer  than  thirty
 days on leave or furlough, is entitled to receive free of charge a fish-
 ing  license,  a hunting license, and a trapping license; [a resident of
 the state who is] an active member of the organized militia of the state
 of New York as defined by section  one  of  the  military  law,  or  the
 reserve components of the armed forces of the United States, and exclud-
 ing members of the inactive national guard and individual ready reserve,
 is  entitled  to  receive  free  of  charge a fishing license, a hunting
 license, and a trapping license; and a resident who is blind is entitled
 to receive a fishing license free of charge. For the  purposes  of  this
 subdivision  a  person  is  blind only if either: (a) his or her central
 visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye  with  correcting
 lenses,  or  (b)  his or her visual acuity is greater than 20/200 but is
 accompanied by a limitation of the field of vision such that the  widest
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04188-01-7
              

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