Bill Text: NY S04378 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to annual vehicular access for active duty service members; requires annual passes be issued to active duty service members and their immediate families at state parks or recreational facilities upon presentation of a military identification card.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-28 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S04378 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04378-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4378

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 7, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. WALCZYK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
          Parks and Recreation

        AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law,  in
          relation to annual vehicular access for active duty service members

          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  Annual  vehicular access for active duty service members. 1.
     4  Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the  contrary,  the
     5  office  or  other  state  agency  having jurisdiction of a state park or
     6  recreational facility which has the authority to issue  an  annual  pass
     7  for  vehicular  access  pursuant to this article shall issue such annual
     8  pass for vehicular access without  charge  to  an  active  duty  service
     9  member and his or her immediate family at any state park or recreational
    10  facility upon presentation of such active duty service member's military
    11  identification card.
    12    2.  For  the  purposes  of  this section, "active duty service member"
    13  shall mean a resident of the state who is an active member of the organ-
    14  ized militia of the state of New York as defined by section one  of  the
    15  military law.
    16    3.  The office or other state agency having jurisdiction shall promul-
    17  gate such rules and regulations as may be necessary  to  carry  out  the
    18  provisions of this section.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    20  it  shall  have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amend-
    21  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    22  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    23  completed on or before such date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06880-01-3