Bill Text: NY S05910 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Waives fishing, hunting and trapping license fees for certain first responders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S05910 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05910-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5910

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- 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
          waving  fishing,  hunting  and trapping license fees for certain first
          responders

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  11-0715 of the environmental
     2  conservation law, as amended by section 4 of part R of chapter 58 of the
     3  laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    2. A member of the Shinnecock tribe  or  the  Poospatuck  tribe  or  a
     5  member  of the six nations, residing on any reservation wholly or partly
     6  within the state, is entitled  to  receive  free  of  charge  a  fishing
     7  license,  a  hunting  license,  a  muzzle-loading  privilege, a trapping
     8  license, and a bowhunting privilege; a resident of the state  who  is  a
     9  member  of  the  United States armed forces in active service who is not
    10  stationed within the state and has not been herein  longer  than  thirty
    11  days on leave or furlough, is entitled to receive free of charge a fish-
    12  ing  license,  a  hunting license, and a trapping license; a resident of
    13  the state who is an active member of the organized militia of the  state
    14  of  New  York  as  defined  by  section  one of the military law, or the
    15  reserve components of the armed forces of the United States, and exclud-
    16  ing members of the inactive national guard and individual ready reserve,
    17  is entitled to receive free of  charge  a  fishing  license,  a  hunting
    18  license, and a trapping license; a resident of the state who is a certi-
    19  fied  first  responder who was disabled as a result of a certified World
    20  Trade Center medical condition is entitled to receive free of  charge  a
    21  fishing  license, a hunting license, and a trapping license; and a resi-
    22  dent who is blind is entitled to  receive  a  fishing  license  free  of
    23  charge.  For  the purposes of this subdivision a person is blind only if
    24  either: (a) his or her central visual acuity does not exceed  20/200  in

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11750-02-9
        S. 5910                             2

     1  the  better  eye with correcting lenses, or (b) his or her visual acuity
     2  is greater than 20/200 but is accompanied by a limitation of  the  field
     3  of  vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an
     4  angle no greater than 20 degrees.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.