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A5174Assembly2019-2020 SessionSame asS831

Free Fishing for Disabled

Official title

“Relates to providing a fishing license exemption for disabled persons that do not live in a group home”

Sponsor David DiPietroAD-147+4 co-sponsorsAffects Environment & Energy
Status
In Assembly Committee
Environmental Conservation
Impact
3/10
Low
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Environmental Conservation

What's happening

This bill exempts disabled individuals not living in group homes from needing a fishing license in New York.

Why it matters

  1. Expands access to outdoor recreation for disabled individuals. living independently or with family, potentially improving their quality of life and social inclusion by removing a financial and administrative barrier to fishing.

  2. Differentiates between disabled individuals based on living arrangements. , specifically excluding those in group homes from the exemption, which may raise questions about equity and the rationale for treating these groups differently.

  3. Defines eligibility using existing legal definitions of disability and group homes. , which may streamline administration but could create ambiguity or exclude some people depending on how these terms are interpreted or updated in the future.

  4. Specifies that the exemption does not cover taking bait fish by net or trap. , maintaining some conservation controls while still expanding access to most fishing activities.

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Free Fishing for Disabled

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
David DiPietro

Assembly Member · Assembly District 147

History

  1. Referred to environmental conservation
  2. Held for consideration in environmental conservation
  3. Referred to environmental conservation

Companion bill

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S831Senate

Free Fishing for Disabled

In Senate Committee · Environmental Conservation · Sponsor Patrick M. Gallivan

Impact 3 · Low0% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

5174

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

February 7, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Committee 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 Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section 11-0707 of the environmental conservation law is amended by adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:

3-a. Any person who is sixteen years of age or older and is disabled as defined under subdivision five of section two hundred eight of the social services law and does not live in a group home as defined under subdivision seventeen of section three hundred seventy-one of the social services law may take fish or frogs as if they held a fishing license, except that they may not take bait fish by net or trap.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD02886-01-9

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