Bill Text: NY S01698 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1698 (Prior Session Legislation)

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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S01698 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01698-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1698

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee 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.
                                                                   LBD04174-01-1