Revision: Dec. 2, 2019, 11:53 a.m.
HB 1220 - AS INTRODUCED
2020 SESSION
20-2391
04/01
HOUSE BILL 1220
AN ACT relative to disabled veterans fishing and hunting licenses.
SPONSORS: Rep. Aldrich, Belk. 2; Rep. Bean, Belk. 2
COMMITTEE: Fish and Game and Marine Resources
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ANALYSIS
This bill entitles a veteran who is at least 60 percent disabled as a result of a service-connected disability to a lifetime, free hunting, fishing, bow and arrow, or combination 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20-2391
04/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty
AN ACT relative to disabled veterans fishing and hunting licenses.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Hunting, Fishing and Trapping; Disabled Veterans. RSA 214:13 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
214:13 Disabled Veterans. If the applicant for a fishing, hunting, or bow and arrow license is a resident of the state, has received a discharge other than dishonorable from service in the armed forces of the United States as defined in RSA 21:50, II and is at least 60 percent disabled from such service-connected disability, the executive director shall issue a special veteran's license to the applicant. The 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 60 days after its passage.