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                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 5, 2019
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 Introduced  by M. of A. SMULLEN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to  fees
   for licenses for disabled persons
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 11-0715 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8.  A  RESIDENT  OF THE STATE FOR A PERIOD OF THREE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY
 PRIOR TO THE DATE OF APPLICATION FOR LICENSURE, WHO IS  OTHERWISE  ENTI-
 TLED  TO  EXERCISE  THE  PRIVILEGES OF ANY LICENSE TO WHICH THIS SECTION
 APPLIES, AND WHO HAS A DISABILITY AS DEFINED IN  SUBDIVISION  TWENTY-ONE
 OF  SECTION  TWO HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, SHALL BE ENTI-
 TLED TO RECEIVE SUCH LICENSE AT THE COST OF FIFTY PERCENT  OF  WHAT  THE
 FEE AND  ADDITIONAL COST TO THE ISSUING CLERK WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE BEEN.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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