Bill Text: NY S04576 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4576 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to qualifications for individuals designated or appointed to the conservation fund advisory board, no longer requiring that such individuals hold a valid New York state hunting, fishing or trapping license at the time they are designated or appointed to such board and for each of the three years immediately preceding their designation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S04576 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04576-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          4576
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 15, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. MARTINEZ, MAYER -- 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 qual-
          ifications for individuals designated or appointed to the conservation
          fund advisory board
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section  11-0327  of  the
     2  environmental  conservation  law, as added by chapter 308 of the laws of
     3  1994, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b) Persons designated or appointed to the advisory  board,  excluding
     5  ex  officio  members,  shall have demonstrated a long-standing interest,
     6  knowledge and experience in  fish  and  wildlife  management,  including
     7  hunting or fishing, [as] which may be evidenced [in part] by the holding
     8  of  a  valid  New York state hunting, fishing or trapping license at the
     9  time they are designated or appointed to such board and for each of  the
    10  three  years  immediately  preceding their designation or appointment to
    11  such board.  One member, who may not be an ex officio member,  shall  be
    12  elected chairman of the advisory board by a majority vote of the members
    13  of such board, excluding ex officio members.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08329-01-9