Bill Text: NY A04112 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows persons having a medically determinable impairment of sufficient severity and duration to qualify for benefits under the federal social security act to take fish as if he or she held a fishing license.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A04112 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04112-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4112
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          allowing certain disabled persons to take fish without a license
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 11-0707 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     3    3-a.  Any  person who is disabled may take fish as if he or she held a
     4  fishing license, except that he or she may not take bait fish by net  or
     5  trap, if he or she has on his or her person an authorization upon a form
     6  furnished  by the department containing such identifying information and
     7  data as may be required by it.   For the purposes  of  this  subdivision
     8  "disabled"  means  having  a medically determinable impairment of suffi-
     9  cient severity and duration to qualify for benefits under  section  1902
    10  (a)(10)(A)(ii)(xv) of the social security act.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
    13  ly,  the  commissioner  of  environmental conservation is authorized and
    14  directed to add, amend, and/or repeal any rule or  regulation  necessary
    15  for the timely implementation of this act on such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08770-01-7