Bill Text: NY A04665 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that a resident of the state for a period of three months prior to the date of application and who is otherwise qualified for certain hunting, fishing and big game licenses and who has a disability as defined in the executive law shall be entitled to receive such license at 50% of the cost set by statute.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in environmental conservation [A04665 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04665-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4665
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 5, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. SMULLEN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to  fees
          for licenses for disabled persons
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 11-0715 of the environmental  conservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     3    8.  A  resident  of the state for a period of three months immediately
     4  prior to the date of application for licensure, who is  otherwise  enti-
     5  tled  to  exercise  the  privileges of any license to which this section
     6  applies, and who has a disability as defined in  subdivision  twenty-one
     7  of  section  two hundred ninety-two of the executive law, shall be enti-
     8  tled to receive such license at the cost of fifty percent  of  what  the
     9  fee and  additional cost to the issuing clerk would otherwise have been.
    10    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08709-01-9
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