Bill Text: NY S01480 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Grants free access and parking at state parks for active-duty military members and veterans upon showing an active-duty military or veteran's ID card.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-10 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S01480 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01480-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1480

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. O'MARA, BORRELLO, GALLIVAN, HELMING, MATTERA, OBER-
          ACKER, ORTT, PALUMBO, TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered  printed,  and
          when  printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland
          Security and Military Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law,  in
          relation  to  granting  free  access  and  parking  at state parks for
          active-duty military members and veterans

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

     1    Section  1.  The  parks,  recreation  and historic preservation law is
     2  amended by adding a new section 13.12 to read as follows:
     3    § 13.12 Veteran parking at state parks.  1. Notwithstanding any  other
     4  provision  of  law, the office or other state agency having jurisdiction
     5  of a state park shall allow free access and parking at such  state  park
     6  for  all  active-duty  military  members  and  veterans. Provision of an
     7  active-duty military identification card or veteran identification  card
     8  shall be sufficient under this section to grant the holder of such iden-
     9  tification card free access and parking at such state park.
    10    2.  The  provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply
    11  to the owner or  operator  of  an  omnibus  operated  for  a  commercial
    12  purpose.
    13    3.  The office or other state agency having jurisdiction shall promul-
    14  gate such rules and regulations as may be necessary  to  carry  out  the
    15  provisions of this section.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



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