STATE OF NEW YORK
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1919
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, HARCKHAM, HELMING, ROLISON, STEC -- 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
providing free lifetime licenses for New York state's honorably
discharged, disabled veterans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 11-0702 of the environmental
2 conservation law, as amended by section 16 of part R of chapter 58 of
3 the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
4 1. There are hereby created the following lifetime hunting, fishing,
5 trapping, archery and muzzle-loading privileges and fees therefor
6 subject to the same privileges and obligations of a comparable short
7 term license:
8 Licenses Fees
9 a. Lifetime license including a
10 hunting license, fishing license
11 and turkey permit. If purchased,
12 for a child four years
13 of age or younger $380.00
14 for a child age five through
15 eleven years of age $535.00
16 for a person age twelve through
17 sixty-nine years of age $765.00
18 for a person age seventy
19 and over[.] $65.00
20 for a New York state resident
21 who has been (a) honorably discharged from
22 service in the armed forces of the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 United States,
2 or (b) has a qualifying condition,
3 as defined in section one of the
4 veterans' services law, and has
5 received a discharge other than bad
6 conduct or dishonorable from such service,
7 or (c) is a discharged LGBT
8 veteran, as defined in section one of
9 the veterans' services law, and has
10 received a discharge other than bad
11 conduct or dishonorable from such
12 service, and is certified
13 as having a forty percent or
14 greater service-connected disability.$0.00
15 b. Lifetime hunting license. $535.00
16 c. Lifetime fishing
17 license for a person age
18 sixty-nine or younger. $460.00
19 d. Lifetime fishing license
20 for a person age seventy
21 and over. $ 65.00
22 e. Lifetime trapping
23 license. $395.00
24 f. Lifetime archery privilege. $235.00
25 g. Lifetime muzzle-loading privilege. $235.00
26 h. For transfer to a person pursuant
27 to section 11-0704 of this title.
28 $50.00
29 The holder of a lifetime hunting license or lifetime fishing license
30 may, at any time, convert such license to a lifetime license pursuant to
31 paragraph a of this subdivision for an additional fee equal to the
32 difference between the current fee for the new license and the fee
33 originally paid for the license.
34 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
