Bill Text: NY A01213 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for residents who participated in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup and who suffered a permanent disability.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 24-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A01213 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01213-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1213

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          authorizing free fishing, hunting, and trapping  licenses  to  certain
          individuals

          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)  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;
     9    [a]  (b)  A resident of the state who is a member of the United States
    10  armed forces in active service who is not stationed within the state and
    11  has not been herein longer than thirty days on  leave  or  furlough,  is
    12  entitled to receive free of charge a fishing license, a hunting license,
    13  and a trapping license;
    14    [a]  (c) A resident of the state who is an active member of the organ-
    15  ized militia of the state of New York as defined by section one  of  the
    16  military  law,  or  the  reserve  components  of the armed forces of the
    17  United States, and excluding members of the inactive national guard  and
    18  individual  ready reserve, is entitled to receive free of charge a fish-
    19  ing license, a hunting license, and a trapping license; [and
    20    a] (d) A resident who is  blind  is  entitled  to  receive  a  fishing
    21  license free of charge. For the purposes of this subdivision a person is
    22  blind  only  if  either: [(a)] (i) his or her central visual acuity does
    23  not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with  correcting  lenses,  or  [(b)]
    24  (ii)  his or her visual acuity is greater than 20/200 but is accompanied

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 1213                             2

     1  by a limitation of the field of vision such that the widest diameter  of
     2  the visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees[.];
     3    (e)  A  resident  in the state for a period of thirty days immediately
     4  prior to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy  is
     5  entitled to receive a fishing license, a trapping license, and a hunting
     6  license, at a cost of five dollars for each license[.];
     7    (f)  A  resident  in the state for a period of thirty days immediately
     8  prior to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy  is
     9  entitled  to receive free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a muzzle-
    10  loading privilege[.]; and
    11    (g) A resident of the state who demonstrates in a manner acceptable to
    12  the department that he or she was  a  participant  in  the  World  Trade
    13  Center  rescue,  recovery, or cleanup, as defined in section one hundred
    14  sixty-one of the workers' compensation  law  and  suffered  a  permanent
    15  disability,  as defined in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred
    16  ninety-two of the executive law, is entitled to receive free of charge a
    17  fishing license, a hunting license, and a trapping license.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect September 1, 2024.