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
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3116 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 27, 2023 ___________ 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