Bill Text - HB1286 (2018)

(New Title) relative to fishing and hunting licenses for permanently disabled veterans.


Revision: May 14, 2018, 3:03 p.m.

HB 1286 - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

6Mar2018... 0576h

04/05/2018   1367s

2018 SESSION

18-2087

04/10

 

HOUSE BILL 1286

 

AN ACT relative to fishing and hunting licenses for permanently 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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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill authorizes the executive director of fish and game to issue a lifetime license to a veteran who is at least 80 percent permanently disabled.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

6Mar2018... 0576h

04/05/2018   1367s 18-2087

04/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT relative to fishing and hunting licenses for permanently disabled veterans.

 

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

 

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

214:13  [Veterans, Totally and Permanently Disabled] Permanently Disabled Veterans. 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] the armed forces of the United States as defined in RSA 21:50, II and is [totally and] at least 80 percent 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.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2019.

 

LBAO

18-2087

Amended 5/14/18

 

HB 1286- FISCAL NOTE

AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE (AMENDMENT #2018-1367s)

 

AN ACT relative to fishing and hunting licenses for permanently disabled veterans.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:      [ X ] State              [    ] County               [    ] Local              [    ] None

 

 

 

Estimated Increase / (Decrease)

STATE:

FY 2019

FY 2020

FY 2021

FY 2022

   Appropriation

$0

$0

$0

$0

   Revenue

Indeterminable

Indeterminable

Indeterminable

Indeterminable

   Expenditures

$0

$0

$0

$0

Funding Source:

  [    ] General            [    ] Education            [    ] Highway           [ X ] Other - F&G

 

METHODOLOGY:

This bill amends the definition for the eligibility for special veteran licenses issued by the Fish and Game Department.  It is unknown how many additional individuals would qualify for a special veteran license under the expanded eligibility and therefore this bill's impact on revenue is indeterminable.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Fish and Game Department