Assembly Bill A10006

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Provides free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for residents who participated in the World Trade Center rescue and cleanup and who suffered a permanent disability

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  • 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-A10006 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0715, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A8086
2017-2018: A6684
2019-2020: A4907
2023-2024: A1213

2021-A10006 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for residents who participated in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup and who suffered a permanent disability.

2021-A10006 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10006
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 29, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   authorizing free fishing, hunting, and trapping  licenses  to  certain
   individuals
 
   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
 by a limitation of the field of vision such that the widest diameter  of
 the visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees[.];
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08657-01-1
              

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