Senate Bill S7305

2023-2024 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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Current 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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2023-S7305 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1213
Current Committee:
Senate 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
2021-2022: A3982, A10006

2023-S7305 (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.

2023-S7305 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7305 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7305
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 19, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK  --  read  twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environ-
   mental 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)]
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00353-01-3
              

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