STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3464 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 27, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HELMING -- 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 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 person who has been 21 honorably discharged from 22 service in the armed forces of the 23 United States and is certified EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07334-01-5
S. 3464 2 1 as having a forty percent or 2 greater service-connected disability. $0.00 3 b. Lifetime hunting license. $535.00 4 c. Lifetime fishing 5 license for a person age 6 sixty-nine or younger. $460.00 7 d. Lifetime fishing license 8 for a person age seventy 9 and over. $ 65.00 10 e. Lifetime trapping 11 license. $395.00 12 f. Lifetime archery privilege. $235.00 13 g. Lifetime muzzle-loading privilege. $235.00 14 h. For transfer to a person pursuant 15 to section 11-0704 of this title. 16 $50.00 17 The holder of a lifetime hunting license or lifetime fishing license 18 may, at any time, convert such license to a lifetime license pursuant to 19 paragraph a of this subdivision for an additional fee equal to the 20 difference between the current fee for the new license and the fee 21 originally paid for the license. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.