Bill Text: NY S03309 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 3309

Bill Title: Permits Gold Star families to use any of the public campsites, parks and other public places of recreation in this state free of charge; defines "veteran".

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-06 - SUBSTITUTED BY A6084A [S03309 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03309-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3309--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  SKOUFIS, MARTINEZ, WEIK -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural
          Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation -- committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law,  in
          relation to Gold Star families

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 13.19 of the parks, recreation and historic preser-
     2  vation law, as amended by chapter 649 of the laws of 1977, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    § 13.19 Free use of campsites. 1. Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of
     5  any other law, any person who is blind, non-ambulatory, or an amputee or
     6  any  veteran [of the wars of the United States, who has at any time been
     7  awarded by the federal government an allowance towards the  purchase  of
     8  an automobile or is eligible for such an award] or member of a Gold Star
     9  family  shall be permitted to use any of the public campsites, parks and
    10  other public places of recreation in this state, upon the same terms and
    11  conditions as apply to the general public, but without  the  payment  of
    12  any fees or other charges for the use of such campsites, parks and other
    13  public places of recreation.
    14    2.  For  the  purposes  of this section "veteran" shall:  (a) have the
    15  same meaning as such term is defined in section  one  of  the  veterans'
    16  services  law  and  shall  be a resident of this state who has served on
    17  active duty or ordered  to  active  duty  and  has  been  discharged  or
    18  released  therefrom  under  conditions other than dishonorable, or has a
    19  qualifying condition,  as  defined  in  section  one  of  the  veterans'
    20  services  law,  and  has  received a discharge other than bad conduct or
    21  dishonorable from such service, or is  a  discharged  LGBT  veteran,  as
    22  defined in section one of the veterans' services law, and has received a

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07477-03-3

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     1  discharge  other  than bad conduct or dishonorable from such service; or
     2  (b) mean an individual who has served  on  active  duty  or  ordered  to
     3  active  duty for the state as a member of the state organized militia as
     4  defined  in  subdivision nine of section one of the military law and who
     5  was  discharged  or  released  therefrom  under  conditions  other  than
     6  dishonorable.
     7    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
     8  the date on which it shall have become a law.