NY State Senate Bill 2021-S788

Senate Bill S788

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Waives fishing, hunting and trapping license fees for certain first responders

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation Committee

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2021-S788 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A4600
Current Committee:: Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:: Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §11-0715, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S5910
2023-2024: S5942

2021-S788 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Waives fishing, hunting and trapping license fees for certain first responders.

2021-S788 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S788

SPONSOR: KAPLAN
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
waving fishing, hunting and trapping license fees for certain first
responders

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

This legislation would extend the fee exemption for hunting and fishing
licenses for veterans to certified first responders who are disabled as
a result of a certified World Trade Center medical condition.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one of this bill amends the environmental conservation law to
extend the fee exemption for hunting and fishing licenses for veterans
to certified first responders who are disabled as a result of a certi-
fied World Trade Center medical condition.

Section two of this bill provides that this act shall take immediately.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Each day, the number of deaths for first responders who participated in
World Trade Center rescue, recovery and cleanup operations continues to
grow. Almost eighteen years after the attacks on the World Trade Center,
over ten thousand first responders and others in the disaster area have
been diagnosed with cancer and other debilitating illnesses, and more
than 2,000 deaths have been related to 9/11 related illness.

Even for first responders who are still in good health, the fear of
future illness is constantly in their minds. However, these heroes still
have to focus on providing financially for their families, and preparing
for the potential risk of developing illness as a result of their call
to serve on that fateful day. Exempting certified first responders who
are disabled as a result of their heroism from hunting and fishing
license fees will provide first responders and their families the oppor-
tunity to enjoy New York's public lands and wildlife without the finan-
cial cost of access.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S. 5910 of 2019/20; Referred to Senate Environmental Conservation
Committee

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

Minimal.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:  This act shall take effect immediately.

2021-S788 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    788
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- 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
   waving  fishing,  hunting  and trapping license fees for certain first
   responders
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  11-0715 of the environmental
 conservation law, as amended by section 4 of part R of chapter 58 of the
 laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   2. A member of the Shinnecock tribe  or  the  Poospatuck  tribe  or  a
 member  of the six nations, residing on any reservation wholly or partly
 within the state, is entitled  to  receive  free  of  charge  a  fishing
 license,  a  hunting  license,  a  muzzle-loading  privilege, a trapping
 license, and a bowhunting privilege; a resident of the state  who  is  a
 member  of  the  United States armed forces in active service who is not
 stationed within the state and has not been herein  longer  than  thirty
 days on leave or furlough, is entitled to receive free of charge a fish-
 ing  license,  a  hunting license, and a trapping license; a resident of
 the state who is an active member of the organized militia of the  state
 of  New  York  as  defined  by  section  one of the military law, or the
 reserve components of the armed forces of the United States, and exclud-
 ing members of the inactive national guard and individual ready reserve,
 is entitled to receive free of  charge  a  fishing  license,  a  hunting
 license, and a trapping license; A RESIDENT OF THE STATE WHO IS A CERTI-
 FIED  FIRST  RESPONDER WHO WAS DISABLED AS A RESULT OF A CERTIFIED WORLD
 TRADE CENTER MEDICAL CONDITION IS ENTITLED TO RECEIVE FREE OF  CHARGE  A
 FISHING  LICENSE, A HUNTING LICENSE, AND A TRAPPING LICENSE; and a resi-
 dent who is blind is entitled to  receive  a  fishing  license  free  of
 charge.  For  the purposes of this subdivision a person is blind only if
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01179-01-1

 S. 788                              2
 
 either: (a) his or her central visual acuity does not exceed  20/200  in
 the  better  eye with correcting lenses, or (b) his or her visual acuity
 is greater than 20/200 but is accompanied by a limitation of  the  field
 of  vision such that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an
 angle no greater than 20 degrees.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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