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Senate Bill S5910

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Waives fishing, hunting and trapping license fees for certain first responders

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2019-S5910 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0715, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S788
2023-2024: S5942
2025-2026: S5835

2019-S5910 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Waives fishing, hunting and trapping license fees for certain first responders.

2019-S5910 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S5910 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5910
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   waving  fishing,  hunting  and trapping license fees for certain first
   responders

   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; A RESIDENT OF THE STATE WHO IS A CERTI-
 FIED  FIRST  RESPONDER WHO WAS DISABLED AS A RESULT OF A CERTIFIED WORLD
 TRADE CENTER MEDICAL CONDITION IS ENTITLED TO RECEIVE FREE OF  CHARGE  A
 FISHING  LICENSE, A HUNTING LICENSE, AND A TRAPPING LICENSE; and a resi-
 dent 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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