Bill Text: NY S04288 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Allows veterans with a service-connected disability or Purple Heart free use of parks and campsites; provides that such disability shall be 10 percent service-connected or greater.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S04288 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04288-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4288

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. ASHBY, GALLIVAN, OBERACKER, ORTT, RHOADS, ROLISON,
          WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be commit-
          ted to the Committee  on  Veterans,  Homeland  Security  and  Military
          Affairs

        AN  ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in
          relation to allowing veterans with a service-connected  disability  or
          Purple Heart free use of parks and campsites

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

     1    Section 1. Section 13.19 of the parks, recreation and historic preser-
     2  vation law, as amended by chapter 649 of the laws of 1977, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    § 13.19  Free  use  of  parks  and  campsites.    Notwithstanding  the
     5  provisions of any other law, any person who is blind, non-ambulatory, or
     6  an  amputee  or any veteran of the wars of the United States, who has at
     7  any time been awarded by the federal government an allowance towards the
     8  purchase of an automobile or is eligible  for  such  an  award,  or  any
     9  veteran  of  the wars of the United States with a ten percent or greater
    10  service-connected disability as certified by the United States veterans'
    11  administration, or any recipient of the Purple Heart shall be  permitted
    12  to  use  any  of  the public campsites, parks and other public places of
    13  recreation in this state, upon the same terms and conditions as apply to
    14  the general public, but without the payment of any fees or other charges
    15  for the use of such campsites, parks and other public places  of  recre-
    16  ation.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06247-01-3