New York S 6583: Provides free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for residents who participated in the World Trade Center rescue and cleanup and who suffered a permanent disability

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S06583 Summary:

BILL NOS06583 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04802

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SPONSORCANZONERI-FITZPATRICK

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §11-0715, En Con L

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Provides free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for residents who participated in the World Trade Center rescue, recovery, or cleanup and who suffered a permanent disability.

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BILL NOS06583 

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03/18/2025REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6583

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 18, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Environ-
 mental Conservation

 AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
 authorizing free fishing, hunting, and trapping licenses to certain
 individuals

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 11-0715 of the environmental
 2 conservation law, as amended by section 4 of part R of chapter 58 of the
 3 laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
 4 2. (a) A member of the Shinnecock tribe or the Poospatuck tribe or a
 5 member of the six nations, residing on any reservation wholly or partly
 6 within the state, is entitled to receive free of charge a fishing
 7 license, a hunting license, a muzzle-loading privilege, a trapping
 8 license, and a bowhunting privilege;
 9 [a] (b) A resident of the state who is a member of the United States
 10 armed forces in active service who is not stationed within the state and
 11 has not been herein longer than thirty days on leave or furlough, is
 12 entitled to receive free of charge a fishing license, a hunting license,
 13 and a trapping license;
 14 [a] (c) A resident of the state who is an active member of the organ-
 15 ized militia of the state of New York as defined by section one of the
 16 military law, or the reserve components of the armed forces of the
 17 United States, and excluding members of the inactive national guard and
 18 individual ready reserve, is entitled to receive free of charge a fish-
 19 ing license, a hunting license, and a trapping license; [and
 20 a] (d) A resident who is blind is entitled to receive a fishing
 21 license free of charge. For the purposes of this subdivision a person is
 22 blind only if either: [(a) his or her] such person's central visual
 23 acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01821-01-5

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 1 or [(b) his or her] such person's visual acuity is greater than 20/200
 2 but is accompanied by a limitation of the field of vision such that the
 3 widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than 20
 4 degrees[.];
 5 (e) A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately
 6 prior to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is
 7 entitled to receive a fishing license, a trapping license, and a hunting
 8 license, at a cost of five dollars for each license[.];
 9 (f) A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately
 10 prior to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is
 11 entitled to receive free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a muzzle-
 12 loading privilege[.]; and
 13 (g) A resident of the state who demonstrates in a manner acceptable to
 14 the department that they were a participant in the World Trade Center
 15 rescue, recovery, or cleanup, as defined in section one hundred sixty-
 16 one of the workers' compensation law and suffered a permanent disabili-
 17 ty, as defined in subdivision twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-
 18 two of the executive law, is entitled to receive free of charge a
 19 fishing license, a hunting license, and a trapping license.
 20 § 2. This act shall take effect September 1, 2026.

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