Bill Text: NY S07758 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the department to review laws and policies pertaining to free or reduced cost hunting and fishing licenses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-14 - referred to ways and means [S07758 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S07758-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7758 IN SENATE May 12, 2016 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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 hunt- ing and fishing licenses The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 11-0305 of the environmental conservation law is 2 amended by adding a new subdivision 19 to read as follows: 3 19. To review, in consultation with the conservation fund advisory 4 board established pursuant to section 11-0327 of this title, existing 5 state policies regarding the provision of free or reduced fee hunting 6 and fishing licenses. Upon such review, the commissioner shall submit 7 his or her findings to the governor, the temporary president of the 8 senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate, 9 and the minority leader of the assembly. The commissioner's submission 10 shall include an analysis of the fiscal impact that providing free or 11 reduced hunting and fishing licenses to additional individuals or groups 12 would have on the conservation fund. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11398-01-5
