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Assembly Bill A1765

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Allows persons who are permanently disabled and require the use of a wheelchair to have free use of any of the public campsites, parks and other public places of recreation in this state

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2025-A1765 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts And Sports Development
Law Section:
Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §13.19, Pks & Rec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9914
2021-2022: A261
2023-2024: A4411

2025-A1765 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows certain non-ambulatory persons who are permanently disabled and require the use of a wheelchair to have free use of any of the public campsites, parks and other public places of recreation in this state.

2025-A1765 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1765
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law,  in
   relation  to allowing persons who are permanently disabled and require
   the use of a wheelchair to have free use of any of  the  public  camp-
   sites, parks and other public places of recreation in this state
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 13.19 of the parks, recreation and
 historic preservation law, as amended by chapter  103  of  the  laws  of
 2024, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  For  the purposes of this section (a) "veteran" shall mean a resi-
 dent of this state who is: (i) a veteran as  such  term  is  defined  in
 section  one  of  the  veterans'  services law; or (ii) a person who has
 served on active duty for the state as a member of the  state  organized
 militia  as  defined  in subdivision nine of section one of the military
 law and who was discharged or released therefrom under conditions  other
 than  dishonorable;  or  (iii) a person who has served on active duty in
 the uniformed services of the United States or on active  duty  for  the
 state  as  a member of the organized militia and has a qualifying condi-
 tion, as defined in section one of the veterans' services law,  and  has
 received  a  discharge  other than bad conduct or dishonorable from such
 service, or is a discharged LGBT veteran, as defined in section  one  of
 the  veterans' services law, and has received a discharge other than bad
 conduct or dishonorable from such service; [and]
   (b) "member of a Gold Star family" shall mean a resident of this state
 who is a gold star parent as defined in section twenty-six of the veter-
 ans' services law, the spouse or domestic partner,  or  the  biological,
 step,  or legally adopted minor child of a veteran whose death qualified
 the parent for an annuity[.]; AND

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04713-01-5
 A. 1765                             2

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