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Senate Bill S4441

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Exempts veterans and those on active duty from paying certain fees for travel

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2025-S4441 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7932
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §9-0903, En Con L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7654, A8181

2025-S4441 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts veterans and those on active duty from paying certain fees for travel on the New York world war veterans memorial highway in Essex county or Prospect mountain veteran's memorial highway in Warren county.

2025-S4441 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4441 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4441
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  STEC, HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Environmental
   Conservation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   exempting veterans and those on active duty from paying  certain  fees
   for travel

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision  2  of  section  9-0903  of  the  environmental
 conservation law is amended to read as follows:
   2.  The  commissioner shall have the power and is authorized to impose
 and provide for the collection of such fees or charges as [he] THEY  may
 deem  necessary  and  for the best interests of the state for the use of
 all facilities and their appurtenances; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,  NO  VETERAN,
 AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION ONE OF THE VETERANS' SERVICES
 LAW, PERSON ON ACTIVE DUTY, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION SIX OF SECTION ONE
 OF THE MILITARY LAW, OR PERSON IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES,
 AS  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION  EIGHT  OF SECTION ONE OF THE MILITARY LAW,
 SHALL BE ASSESSED A FEE OR OTHER CHARGE FOR TRAVEL ON THE NEW YORK WORLD
 WAR VETERANS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY  IN  ESSEX  COUNTY  OR  PROSPECT  MOUNTAIN
 VETERAN'S  MEMORIAL HIGHWAY IN WARREN COUNTY. All moneys received there-
 from shall be deposited in the State Treasury pursuant to the provisions
 of the State Finance Law.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04888-01-5

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