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Assembly Bill A2209

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to providing a fishing license exemption for disabled persons that do not live in a group home

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2025-A2209 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0707, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A6133

2025-A2209 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides a fishing license exemption for disabled persons that do not live in a group home.

2025-A2209 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2209
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   providing a fishing license exemption for disabled persons that do not
   live in a group home

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  11-0707 of the environmental conservation law is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
   3-A.  ANY PERSON WHO IS SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AND IS  DISABLED
 AS  DEFINED  UNDER  SUBDIVISION FIVE OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED EIGHT OF THE
 SOCIAL SERVICES LAW AND DOES NOT LIVE IN A GROUP HOME AS  DEFINED  UNDER
 SUBDIVISION SEVENTEEN OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY-ONE OF THE SOCIAL
 SERVICES  LAW  MAY TAKE FISH OR FROGS AS IF THEY HELD A FISHING LICENSE,
 EXCEPT THAT THEY MAY NOT TAKE BAIT FISH BY NET OR TRAP.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05681-01-5

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