Bill Text: NY A05907 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that persons with a disability shall be eligible to receive a fishing license free for five dollars.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to environmental conservation [A05907 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05907-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5907--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 24, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Environmental  Conservation -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          providing  for  persons  with a disability to be eligible to receive a
          fishing license for a reduced fee

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  11-0715 of the environmental conservation law is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
     3    4-a. A person, resident in the state for at least  thirty  days  imme-
     4  diately  prior to the date of application, who has a disability, as such
     5  term is defined  pursuant  to  subdivision  twenty-one  of  section  two
     6  hundred  ninety-two of the executive law, is entitled to receive a fish-
     7  ing license for which he or she is eligible, renewable each year  for  a
     8  five dollar fee.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05085-03-3