Senate Bill S7436

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing free hunting licenses for NYS hunter education instructors

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation 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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2021-S7436 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0715, En Con L

2021-S7436 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for NYS hunter education instructors with at least five years of service as an instructor.

2021-S7436 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S7436 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7436
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             October 14, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   authorizing  free  fishing, hunting, and trapping licenses to New York
   state hunter education instructors

   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) 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] (B) 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 fishing license, a hunting license,
 and a trapping license;
   [a] (C) A resident of the state who is an active member of the  organ-
 ized  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 excluding members of the inactive national guard and
 individual ready reserve, is entitled to receive free of charge a  fish-
 ing license, a hunting license, and a trapping license; [and
   a]  (D)  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)] (I) his or her central  visual  acuity  does
 not  exceed  20/200  in  the better eye with correcting lenses, or [(b)]
 (II) his or her visual acuity is greater than 20/200 but is  accompanied
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13332-02-1

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