NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4770

Senate Bill S4770

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes lifetime sporting licenses to be purchased by permanently disabled veterans at a discounted rate

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation Committee

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Feb 12, 2025	referred to environmental conservation

2025-S4770 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:: Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §11-702, En Con L

2025-S4770 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes lifetime sporting licenses, which includes hunting and fishing licenses and turkey permits, to be purchased by permanently disabled veterans at a discounted rate of sixty-five dollars.

2025-S4770 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4770 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4770
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 12, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. BORRELLO -- 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
   authorizing  lifetime sporting licenses to be purchased by permanently
   disabled veterans at a discounted rate

   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 PERSON WHO IS A PERMANENTLY
       DISABLED VETERAN.                             $65.00
       b. Lifetime hunting license.                  $535.00
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09329-01-5
 S. 4770                             2

 
       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.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, A "DISA-
 BLED VETERAN" SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS SUCH  TERM  IS  DEFINED  IN
 PARAGRAPH  (B)  OF  SUBDIVISION  ONE OF SECTION EIGHTY-FIVE OF THE CIVIL
 SERVICE LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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