Bill Text: NY S00268 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Eliminates sporting license fees for honorably discharged, disabled veterans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S00268 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00268-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                           268
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          providing  free  lifetime  licenses for honorably discharged, disabled
          veterans
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  11-0702 of the environmental
     2  conservation law, as amended by section 16 of part R of  chapter  58  of
     3  the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1.  There  are hereby created the following lifetime hunting, fishing,
     5  trapping,  archery  and  muzzle-loading  privileges  and  fees  therefor
     6  subject  to  the  same  privileges and obligations of a comparable short
     7  term license:
     8               Licenses                               Fees
     9        a. Lifetime license including a
    10        hunting license, fishing license
    11        and turkey permit. If purchased,
    12       for a  child four years
    13       of age or younger                              $380.00
    14        for a child age five through
    15       eleven years of age                            $535.00
    16        for a person age twelve through
    17       sixty-nine years of age                        $765.00
    18        for a person age seventy
    19        and over[.]                                   $65.00
    20        for a person who has been
    21        honorably discharged from
    22        service in the armed forces of the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04104-01-9

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     1        United States and is certified
     2        as having a forty percent or
     3        greater service-connected disability.         $0.00
     4        b. Lifetime hunting license.                  $535.00
     5        c. Lifetime fishing
     6       license for a person age
     7       sixty-nine or younger.                         $460.00
     8        d. Lifetime fishing license
     9       for a person age seventy
    10       and over.                                      $ 65.00
    11        e. Lifetime trapping
    12       license.                                       $395.00
    13        f. Lifetime archery privilege.                $235.00
    14        g. Lifetime muzzle-loading privilege.         $235.00
    15        h. For transfer to a person pursuant
    16       to section 11-0704 of this title.
    17                                                       $50.00
    18    The  holder  of a lifetime hunting license or lifetime fishing license
    19  may, at any time, convert such license to a lifetime license pursuant to
    20  paragraph a of this subdivision for  an  additional  fee  equal  to  the
    21  difference  between  the  current  fee  for  the new license and the fee
    22  originally paid for the license.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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