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Assembly Bill A4555

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Waives the thirty day residency requirement for certain hunting licenses for active duty military members and their families on permanent orders to be stationed within the state

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2025-A4555 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §11-0703, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A6346
2023-2024: A2296

2025-A4555 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Waives the thirty day residency requirement for certain hunting licenses for active duty military members and their families on permanent orders to be stationed within the state.

2025-A4555 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4555
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MORINELLO  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to waiv-
   ing the thirty day residency requirement for certain hunting  licenses
   for  active  duty  military  members  and  their families on permanent
   orders to be stationed within the state
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  11-0703 of the environmental conservation law is
 amended by adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS TITLE, AN APPLICANT  SHALL  BE  DEEMED  TO
 HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT IN THE STATE FOR A PERIOD OF THIRTY DAYS IMMEDIATE-
 LY  PRIOR  TO  THE  DATE  OF APPLICATION FOR A LICENSE ISSUED UNDER THIS
 TITLE WHERE THE APPLICANT IS EITHER:
   A. AN ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY MEMBER ON PERMANENT ORDERS TO BE  STATIONED
 WITHIN THE STATE; OR
   B.  A  SPOUSE  OR CHILD OF AN ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY MEMBER ON PERMANENT
 ORDERS TO BE STATIONED WITHIN THE STATE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01210-01-5

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