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A02209 Summary:

BILL NOA02209
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORDiPietro
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §11-0707, En Con L
 
Provides a fishing license exemption for disabled persons that do not live in a group home.
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A02209 Actions:

BILL NOA02209
 
01/15/2025referred to environmental conservation
01/07/2026referred to environmental conservation
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A02209 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
 submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)




 
BILL NUMBER: A2209
 
SPONSOR: DiPietro

 
TITLE OF BILL:
 
An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to
providing a fishing license exemption for disabled persons that do not
live in a group home
 
 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
 
To allow people with disabilities the ability to more easily enjoy the
therapeutic value of fishing and the outdoors
 
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
 
Section 1. Amends the Environmental Conservation Law to allow any person
who is sixteen years or older to take fish frogs as if they held a fish-
ing license.

Section 2. Establishes the effective date.
 
 
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ORIGINAL AND AMENDED VERSION (IF APPLICABLE):
 
 
JUSTIFICATION:
 
This bill will provide a person with a disability the opportunity to
more easily enjoy the therapeutic benefits of fishing and the outdoors.
 
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
 
2023-2024 A6133 Referred to Environmental Conservation
 
2021-2022 S0168 Referred to Environmental Conservation
 
2019-2020 S.831/A.5174 Referred to Environmental Conservation
 
2017-2018 S.5435/A.10282 Referred to Environmental Conservation
 
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
 
Undetermined
 
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately
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A02209 Text:




 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2209
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 15, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Environmental Conservation
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          providing a fishing license exemption for disabled persons that do not
          live in a group home

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  11-0707 of the environmental conservation law is
     2  amended by adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     3    3-a.  Any person who is sixteen years of age or older and is  disabled
     4  as  defined  under  subdivision five of section two hundred eight of the
     5  social services law and does not live in a group home as  defined  under
     6  subdivision seventeen of section three hundred seventy-one of the social
     7  services  law  may take fish or frogs as if they held a fishing license,
     8  except that they may not take bait fish by net or trap.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05681-01-5
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