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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 23, 2023
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 Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   providing  free  lifetime  licenses  for  New  York  state's honorably
   discharged, disabled veterans

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  11-0702 of the environmental
 conservation law, as amended by section 16 of part R of  chapter  58  of
 the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  There  are hereby created the following lifetime hunting, fishing,
 trapping,  archery  and  muzzle-loading  privileges  and  fees  therefor
 subject  to  the  same  privileges and obligations of a comparable short
 term license:
 
              Licenses                               Fees
       a. Lifetime license including a
       hunting license, fishing license
       and turkey permit. If purchased,
      for a  child four years
      of age or younger                              $380.00
       for a child age five through
      eleven years of age                            $535.00
       for a person age twelve through
      sixty-nine years of age                        $765.00
       for a person age seventy
       and over[.]                                   $65.00
       FOR A NEW YORK STATE RESIDENT
       WHO HAS BEEN (A) HONORABLY DISCHARGED FROM
       SERVICE IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE
       UNITED STATES,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       OR (B) HAS A QUALIFYING CONDITION,
       AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE OF THE
       VETERANS'  SERVICES LAW, AND HAS
       RECEIVED A DISCHARGE OTHER THAN BAD
       CONDUCT OR DISHONORABLE FROM SUCH SERVICE,
       OR (C) IS A DISCHARGED LGBT
       VETERAN, AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE OF
       THE VETERANS' SERVICES LAW, AND HAS
       RECEIVED A DISCHARGE OTHER THAN BAD
       CONDUCT OR DISHONORABLE FROM SUCH
       SERVICE, AND IS CERTIFIED
       AS HAVING A FORTY PERCENT OR
       GREATER SERVICE-CONNECTED DISABILITY.         $0.00
       b. Lifetime hunting license.                  $535.00
       c. Lifetime fishing
      license for a person age
      sixty-nine or younger.                         $460.00
       d. Lifetime fishing license
      for a person age seventy
      and over.                                      $ 65.00
       e. Lifetime trapping
      license.                                       $395.00
       f. Lifetime archery privilege.                $235.00
       g. Lifetime muzzle-loading privilege.         $235.00
       h. For transfer to a person pursuant
      to section 11-0704 of this title.
                                                      $50.00
   The  holder  of a lifetime hunting license or lifetime fishing license
 may, at any time, convert such license to a lifetime license pursuant to
 paragraph a of this subdivision for  an  additional  fee  equal  to  the
 difference  between  the  current  fee  for  the new license and the fee
 originally paid for the license.
   § 2. This act shall take effect  immediately;  provided,  however,  if
 section  2  of  part PP of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022 shall not have
 taken effect on or before such date then this act shall take  effect  on
 the same date and in the same manner as such chapter of the laws of 2022
 takes effect.