Bill Text: NY A07047 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7047 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides free use of state parks for veterans and the surviving spouses or domestic partners of those killed in combat.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to veterans' affairs [A07047 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07047-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          7047
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 29, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. TITONE, HOOPER, PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
          of  A.  McDONOUGH, SIMANOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Veterans' Affairs
        AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law,  in
          relation to providing free use of state parks for veterans and surviv-
          ing spouses or domestic partners of those killed in combat
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The parks, recreation  and  historic  preservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new section 13.22 to read as follows:
     3    §  13.22  Free  use of state parks.  Notwithstanding the provisions of
     4  any other law, any person who is a  resident  of  New  York  state,  who
     5  served in the armed forces of the United States during a time of war, as
     6  defined  in  paragraph  (c) of subdivision one of section eighty-five of
     7  the civil service law or the surviving spouse  or  domestic  partner  of
     8  deceased military personnel who were killed in combat or duty subject to
     9  hostile fire or imminent danger, as defined in 37 USC § 310(a)(4), shall
    10  be  permitted to use any of the state parks in this state, upon the same
    11  terms and conditions as apply to the general  public,  but  without  the
    12  payment of any fees or other charges for the use of such state parks.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    14  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
    15  ly,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation
    16  necessary for the implementation of this act on its  effective  date  is
    17  authorized  and  directed  to  be  made  and completed on or before such
    18  effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09191-01-7