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- Referred to environmental conservation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 57–1
- Ordered to third reading cal.1250
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
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Relates to the cost of various hunting, fishing and trapping licenses
In Assembly Committee · Environmental Conservation · Sponsor Fred Thiele
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BILL NUMBER:S5133
Title of bill
An act to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the cost of various hunting, fishing and trapping licenses
Purpose or general idea of bill
To lower the age limits in which persons are entitled to receive a reduction in fees for various hunting, fishing and trapping licenses under the Environmental Conservation Law
Summary of provisions
Amends Subdivision 2 of Section 11-0715 of the Environmental Conservation Law to lower from 70 to 65 the age in which a person is entitled to receive a fishing license, trapping license, and/or hunting license, at a cost of $5.00 for each license. This bill also lowers from 70 to 65 the age in which a person is entitled to receive, free of charge, a bow hunting privilege and/or muzzle-loading privilege.
Also lowers age limits for reduction in various life-time hunting, fishing, trapping, archery and muzzle-loading licenses and fees therefore subject to the same privileges and obligations of a comparable short-term license.
Justification
The term "senior citizen" is usually synonymous with a person sixty-five years of age or older. Age sixty five is the standard retirement age in the United States and is the age at which individuals become eligible for Medicare. New York State offers other senior citizen tax breaks, credits and reductions when an individual reaches age sixty-five. This bill, by changing the senior citizen age accepted by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation from seventy to sixty-five would make it align with the majority of other New York State and federal senior citizen recognitions.
Legislative history
2013: New Legislation
Fiscal implications
To be determined
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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