S 1919: Eliminates sporting license fees for honorably discharged, disabled veterans.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1919 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 14, 2025 ___________ 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. LBD05525-01-5 
 S. 1919 2 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.