A 1103: Requires the department of environmental conservation to review laws and policies pertaining to free or reduced cost hunting and fishing licenses.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1103 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to hunt- ing and fishing licenses The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 11-0305 of the environmental conservation law is 2 amended by adding a new subdivision 19 to read as follows: 3 19. To review, in consultation with the conservation fund advisory 4 board established pursuant to section 11-0327 of this title, existing 5 state policies regarding the provision of free or reduced fee hunting 6 and fishing licenses. Upon such review, the commissioner shall submit 7 the findings of such review to the governor, the temporary president of 8 the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the 9 senate, and the minority leader of the assembly. The commissioner's 10 submission shall include an analysis of the fiscal impact that providing 11 free or reduced hunting and fishing licenses to additional individuals 12 or groups would have on the conservation fund. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03812-01-5