Bill Text: NY A02639 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides tax credits equal to the cost of the issuance of fishing and hunting licenses to volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A02639 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02639-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2639

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ANGELINO, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO, LEMONDES, MANKTE-
          LOW, McDONOUGH, MILLER, MORINELLO, SIMPSON, TAGUE  --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          providing tax credits equal to the cost of hunting and fishing license
          fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers

          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  volunteer  ambulance worker, as
    19  defined in subdivision one of section three of the  volunteer  ambulance
    20  workers'  benefit law, or a volunteer fireman, as defined in subdivision
    21  one of section three of the  volunteer  firefighters'  benefit  law,  is
    22  entitled  to  receive a New York state tax credit equal to the cost of a
    23  fishing license, and a small and big game license; and a resident who is

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06596-01-3
        A. 2639                             2

     1  blind is entitled to receive a fishing license free of charge.  For  the
     2  purposes  of  this subdivision a person is blind only if either: (a) his
     3  or her central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in  the  better  eye
     4  with  correcting lenses, or (b) his or her visual acuity is greater than
     5  20/200 but is accompanied by a limitation of the field  of  vision  such
     6  that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no great-
     7  er than 20 degrees.
     8    A  resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
     9  to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is  enti-
    10  tled  to  receive  a  fishing license, a trapping license, and a hunting
    11  license, at a cost of five dollars for each license.
    12    A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately  prior
    13  to  the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is enti-
    14  tled to receive free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a muzzle-load-
    15  ing privilege.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.