Bill Text: NY A04538 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the issuance of deer management permits for certain service-connected disabled veterans.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-28 - signed chap.463 [A04538 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4538
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 2, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. ORTIZ, GUNTHER, COLTON, WEPRIN, HOOPER, COOK --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation  to  the
          issuance of deer management permits for certain disabled veterans
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 1  of  section  11-0913  of  the
     2  environmental  conservation  law,  as amended by section 46 of part F of
     3  chapter 82 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
     4    b. In the issuance of permits, the department may give  preference  to
     5  resident  license  holders  and may give preference to disabled veterans
     6  having 40 percent or greater disability who shall only have  to  provide
     7  proof  of service-related disability one time and every year thereafter,
     8  shall provide proof of an expired permit, and  to  the  applications  of
     9  groups  which  include a person or the spouse of a person, provided that
    10  such spouse lives in the same household, who owns at least 50  acres  of
    11  land in one parcel in the specified area.
    12    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law; provided, however, that  effective  immediately,  the
    14  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    15  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    16  and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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