Bill Text: NY A05174 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to providing a fishing license exemption for disabled persons that do not live in a group home.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to environmental conservation [A05174 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05174-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5174 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to providing a fishing license exemption for disabled persons that do not live in a group home The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 11-0707 of the environmental conservation law is 2 amended by adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows: 3 3-a. Any person who is sixteen years of age or older and is disabled 4 as defined under subdivision five of section two hundred eight of the 5 social services law and does not live in a group home as defined under 6 subdivision seventeen of section three hundred seventy-one of the social 7 services law may take fish or frogs as if they held a fishing license, 8 except that they may not take bait fish by net or trap. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02886-01-9
