Bill Text: NY A06524 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6524 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to qualifications for individuals designated or appointed to the conservation fund advisory board, no longer requiring that such individuals hold a valid New York state hunting, fishing or trapping license at the time they are designated or appointed to such board and for each of the three years immediately preceding their designation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A06524 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06524-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6524
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 11, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. GALEF, BLAKE, GOTTFRIED, STECK, L. ROSENTHAL --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON, WRIGHT -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to qual-
          ifications for individuals designated or appointed to the conservation
          fund advisory board
          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 11-0327 of the
     2  environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 308 of the  laws  of
     3  1994, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  Persons  designated or appointed to the advisory board, excluding
     5  ex officio members, shall have demonstrated  a  long-standing  interest,
     6  knowledge  and  experience  in  fish  and wildlife management, including
     7  hunting or fishing, [as] which may be evidenced [in part] by the holding
     8  of a valid New York state hunting, fishing or trapping  license  at  the
     9  time  they are designated or appointed to such board and for each of the
    10  three years immediately preceding their designation  or  appointment  to
    11  such  board.   One member, who may not be an ex officio member, shall be
    12  elected chairman of the advisory board by a majority vote of the members
    13  of such board, excluding ex officio members.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08329-01-9