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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEMPOLINSKI -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to  free
   hunting,  fishing  and  trapping  licenses  to state residents who are
   active duty members of the United States armed services

   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]
 REGARDLESS OF WHERE THEY ARE 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 fishing 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 excluding members of the inactive national guard and
 individual ready reserve, is entitled to receive free of charge a  fish-
 ing  license,  a hunting license, and a trapping license; and a resident
 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 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 vision  such  that  the  widest diameter of the visual field subtends an
 angle no greater than 20 degrees.
   A  resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
 to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is  enti-
 tled  to  receive  a  fishing license, a trapping license, and a hunting
 license, at a cost of five dollars for each license.
   A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately  prior
 to  the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is enti-
 tled to receive free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a muzzle-load-
 ing privilege.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.