A02383 Summary:

BILL NOA02383A
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORCrouch
 
COSPNSRBrabenec
 
MLTSPNSRDiPietro, Hawley, Lopez, Wozniak
 
Amd §11-0715, En Con L
 
Provides tax credits equal to the cost of the issuance of fishing and hunting licenses to volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers.
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A02383 Actions:

BILL NOA02383A
 
01/16/2015referred to environmental conservation
06/01/2015held for consideration in environmental conservation
01/06/2016referred to environmental conservation
02/10/2016amend (t) and recommit to environmental conservation
02/10/2016print number 2383a
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A02383 Committee Votes:

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A02383 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A02383 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         2383--A
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 16, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. CROUCH, BRABENEC -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A. DiPIETRO, HAWLEY, WOZNIAK -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
          tee  on  Environmental Conservation -- recommitted to the Committee on
          Environmental Conservation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.  2
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
          providing tax credits equal to the cost of hunting and fishing license
          fees for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers
 
          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  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; a resident of the state who is a
     9  member of the United States armed forces in active service  who  is  not
    10  stationed  within  the  state and has not been herein longer than thirty
    11  days on leave or furlough, is entitled to receive free of charge a fish-
    12  ing license, a hunting license, and a trapping license;  a  resident  of
    13  the  state who is an active member of the organized militia of the state
    14  of New York as defined by section  one  of  the  military  law,  or  the
    15  reserve components of the armed forces of the United States, and exclud-
    16  ing members of the inactive national guard and individual ready reserve,
    17  is  entitled  to  receive  free  of  charge a fishing license, a hunting
    18  license, and a  trapping  license;  a  volunteer  ambulance  worker,  as
    19  defined  in  subdivision one of section three of the volunteer ambulance
    20  workers' benefit law, or a volunteer fireman, as defined in  subdivision
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05105-02-6

        A. 2383--A                          2
 
     1  one  of  section  three  of  the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, is
     2  entitled to receive a New York state tax credit equal to the cost  of  a
     3  fishing license, and a small and big game license; and a resident who is
     4  blind  is  entitled to receive a fishing license free of charge. For the
     5  purposes of this subdivision a person is blind only if either:  (a)  his
     6  or  her  central  visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye
     7  with correcting lenses, or (b) his or her visual acuity is greater  than
     8  20/200  but  is  accompanied by a limitation of the field of vision such
     9  that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no great-
    10  er than 20 degrees.
    11    A resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately  prior
    12  to  the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is enti-
    13  tled to receive a fishing license, a trapping  license,  and  a  hunting
    14  license, at a cost of five dollars for each license.
    15    A  resident in the state for a period of thirty days immediately prior
    16  to the date of application who has attained the age of seventy is  enti-
    17  tled to receive free of charge a bowhunting privilege and a muzzle-load-
    18  ing privilege.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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