Bill Text: NY A00952 | 2025-2026 | 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) 2025-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A00952 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00952-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           952

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO, BENDETT, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO, LEMONDES,
          MANKTELOW,  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 firefighter, as defined in subdivi-
    21  sion 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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02679-01-5
        A. 952                              2

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