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Assembly Bill A4747

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the Come Home to Hunt Act

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2025-A4747 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§11-0701 & 11-0715, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10169
2019-2020: A5582
2021-2022: A4369
2023-2024: A3670

2025-A4747 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to enacting the Come Home to Hunt Act, which provides for the purchase of a two-day hunting license for non-residents to hunt domestic game bird, migratory game bird, big game, and small game.

2025-A4747 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4747
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. MANKTELOW, BRABENEC, MILLER, HAWLEY, LEMONDES,
   SMULLEN, ANGELINO, DeSTEFANO, TAGUE -- read once and referred  to  the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   enacting the "come home to hunt act"

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 the "come home to hunt act".
   § 2. Section 11-0701 of the environmental conservation law is  amended
 by adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10.  A  TWO-DAY  NON-RESIDENT  HUNTING LICENSE ENTITLES A NON-RESIDENT
 HOLDER TO HUNT DOMESTIC GAME BIRD, MIGRATORY GAME BIRD,  BIG  GAME,  AND
 SMALL  GAME,  AS  PROVIDED  IN  TITLE  NINE OF THIS ARTICLE, FOR THE TWO
 CONSECUTIVE DAYS SPECIFIED BY SUCH LICENSE.
   § 3. Paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section 11-0715 of  the  environ-
 mental  conservation  law  is  amended by adding a new subparagraph 9 to
 read as follows:
   (9) TWO-DAY NON-RESIDENT HUNTING LICENSE $40.00
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06891-01-5

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