Revision: Nov. 7, 2017, 10:04 a.m.
HB 1286 - AS INTRODUCED
2018 SESSION
18-2087
04/10
HOUSE BILL 1286
AN ACT relative to fish and game regulations relative to disabled veterans.
SPONSORS: Rep. Spillane, Rock. 2; Rep. Verville, Rock. 2; Rep. McGuire, Merr. 29; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. French, Dist 7
COMMITTEE: Fish and Game and Marine Resources
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ANALYSIS
This bill changes the requirements for disabled veterans who wish to receive a hunting, fishing, or trapping license.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
18-2087
04/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen
AN ACT relative to fish and game regulations relative to disabled veterans.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
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 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] is at least 80 percent 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.
2 Hunting, Fishing, and Trapping; Nonresident Licenses. Amend RSA 214:13-b to read as follows:
214:13-b Reciprocity; Nonresident Licenses; Certain Persons. The executive director may issue upon application complimentary nonresident hunting and fishing licenses to a person from another state who is suffering from paraplegia or who is suffering from the loss of, or the loss of the use of, both lower extremities, or is a [totally and permanently] disabled veteran with at least an 80 percent disability, who would be eligible if a resident under RSA 214:13, if the state in which said person is a resident provides a reciprocal privilege for residents of this state who are similarly suffering. The executive director shall determine the form of such complimentary licenses. All such licenses shall be consecutively numbered. A license issued under this section shall be effective for the lifetime of the applicant unless sooner suspended or revoked by the executive director.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.