Bill Text - HB1280 (2018)

Relative to bow and arrow hunting licenses for permanently disabled military veterans.


Revision: May 25, 2018, 11:20 a.m.

CHAPTER 27

HB 1280-FN - FINAL VERSION

 

 

2018 SESSION

18-2063

04/01

 

HOUSE BILL 1280-FN

 

AN ACT relative to bow and arrow hunting licenses for permanently disabled military veterans.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Shurtleff, Merr. 11

 

COMMITTEE: Fish and Game and Marine Resources

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides for the issuance of a lifetime bow and arrow license to a totally and permanently disabled military veteran.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2063

04/01

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT relative to bow and arrow hunting licenses for permanently disabled military veterans.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

27:1  Hunting, Fishing, and Trapping; Veterans, Totally and Permanently Disabled.  Amend RSA 214:13 to read as follows:

214:13  Veterans, Totally and Permanently Disabled.  If the applicant for a fishing [and], hunting, or bow and arrow license is a resident of the state, has received a discharge other than dishonorable from service in any war or police action in which the United States has been engaged and is totally and permanently disabled from such service-connected disability, the executive director shall issue a special veteran's license to said applicant.  Said license shall be perpetual.  The executive director shall retain the records for such licenses for a period not less than 7 years.  Loss or destruction of the license after 7 years shall obligate the licensee to re-establish eligibility.  A $10 administrative fee shall be charged once, upon application to the executive director for such license.

27:2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

 

Approved: May 15, 2018

Effective Date: July 14, 2018