Bill Text: NY S03116 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-26 - referred to environmental conservation [S03116 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03116-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3116

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- 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  for  persons with a medically diagnosed developmental disa-
          bility to be eligible to receive a fishing license free of charge

          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 been medically diag-
     5  nosed with a developmental disability, as defined  pursuant  to  section
     6  1.03  of the mental hygiene law, is entitled to receive free of charge a
     7  fishing license for which he or she is eligible, renewable each year.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05085-01-3