Bill Text: NY A04907 | 2019-2020 | 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 and cleanup and who suffered a permanent disability.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 9-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A04907 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04907-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4907
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 5, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. M. L. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee 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. 4907                             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, 2020.