STATE OF NEW YORK
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5292
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHIAVONI -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
providing for persons with a disability to be eligible to receive a
fishing license for a reduced fee
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 11-0715 of the environmental conservation law is
2 amended by adding a new subdivision 4-a to read as follows:
3 4-a. A person, resident in the state for at least thirty days imme-
4 diately prior to the date of application, who has a disability, as such
5 term is defined pursuant to subdivision twenty-one of section two
6 hundred ninety-two of the executive law, is entitled to receive a fish-
7 ing license for which such person is eligible, renewable each year for a
8 five dollar fee.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
10 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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