Bill Text: NY S06137 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for individuals with a mental disability who receive or are eligible to receive services for such disability to use any of the public campsites, parks and other public places of recreation in the state without the payment of any fees or other charges.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CULTURAL AFFAIRS, TOURISM, PARKS AND RECREATION [S06137 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06137-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6137

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 30, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
          Parks and Recreation

        AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law,  in
          relation  to providing for individuals with a mental disability to use
          any of the public campsites, parks and other public places  of  recre-
          ation in the state without the payment of any fees or other charges

          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 campsites.  Notwithstanding the provisions of  any
     5  other law, any person who is blind, non-ambulatory, or an amputee or any
     6  veteran  of  the  wars  of  the  United States, who has at any time been
     7  awarded by the federal government an allowance towards the  purchase  of
     8  an automobile or is eligible for such an award shall be permitted to use
     9  any of the public campsites, parks and other public places of recreation
    10  in this state, upon the same terms and conditions as apply to the gener-
    11  al  public, but without the payment of any fees or other charges for the
    12  use of such campsites, parks and  other  public  places  of  recreation.
    13  Additionally,  any  person  who  has  a  mental disability as defined by
    14  subdivision three of section 1.03 of the  mental  hygiene  law  and  who
    15  receives services or is eligible to receive services for such disability
    16  shall  be  permitted to use any of the public campsites, parks and other
    17  public places of recreation in this  state,  upon  the  same  terms  and
    18  conditions  as  apply  to the general public, but without the payment of
    19  any fees or other charges for the use of such campsites, parks and other
    20  public places of recreation.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    22  it shall have become a law.

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