Bill Text: PA SB473 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Further providing for license fee for deployed Pennsylvania National Guard members and for resident license and fee exemptions.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 16-8)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-12 - Act No. 28 [SB473 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB473-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  468

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

SENATE BILL

 

No.

473

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY VANCE, BAKER, ALLOWAY, BRUBAKER, ROBBINS, SCARNATI, KASUNIC, BREWSTER, ERICKSON, RAFFERTY, SOLOBAY, TARTAGLIONE, VOGEL, YAW, FONTANA, FOLMER, KITCHEN, TOMLINSON, ORIE, STACK AND WARD, FEBRUARY 10, 2011

  

  

REFERRED TO GAME AND FISHERIES, FEBRUARY 10, 2011  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

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Statutes, further providing for license fee for deployed

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Pennsylvania National Guard members and for resident license

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and fee exemptions.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Sections 2707.1(a) and 2707.2(a) of Title 30 of

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the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:

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§ 2707.1.  Deployed Pennsylvania National Guard members.

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(a)  Eligibility.--The commission or a county treasurer shall

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issue one annual resident fishing license at a cost of $1 to any

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person eligible under section 2701 (relating to resident fishing

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licenses) for the license who provides documentation that within

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the previous 24 months the person was deployed overseas as a

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member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard or Air National

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Guard on active Federal service for a period of [180] 60 

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consecutive days or more or was released early from such service

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because of an injury or disease incurred in the line of duty.

 


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Only one Pennsylvania National Guard fishing license under this

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section may be issued for each qualifying deployment of a person

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applying for the license.

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§ 2707.2.  Reserve component of armed forces members.

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(a)  Eligibility.--The commission or a county treasurer shall

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issue one annual resident fishing license at a cost of $1 to any

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person eligible for the license under section 2701 (relating to

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resident fishing licenses) who provides documentation that

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within the previous 24 months the person was deployed overseas

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as a member of the reserve component of the armed forces

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pursuant to 51 Pa.C.S. § 7301 (relating to definitions) for a

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period of [180] 60 consecutive days or more or was released

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early from service because of an injury or disease incurred in

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the line of duty. Only one fishing license under this section

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may be issued for each qualifying deployment of a person

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applying for the license.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

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