By Mr. Verga of Gloucester, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 885) of Anthony J. Verga and others relative to the exemption of fees for veterans for hunting and fishing licenses in the Commonwealth.  Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

——————

PETITION OF:

Anthony J. Verga

Kathi-Anne Reinstein

Edward M. Augustus, Jr.

Scott P. Brown

Sean Curran

Thomas M. McGee

Harold P. Naughton, Jr.

Thomas M. Stanley

Jeffrey Davis Perry

John P. Fresolo

Denis E. Guyer

Peter V. Kocot

Michael R. Knapik

F. Jay Barrows

Barbara A. L'Italien

Richard T. Moore

James H. Fagan

William Smitty Pignatelli

William G. Greene, Jr.

Paul Kujawski

Sarah K. Peake

Charles A. Murphy

Todd M. Smola

Karyn E. Polito

Joseph R. Driscoll

Bruce J. Ayers

——————

In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

——————

An Act for veterans hunting and fishing licenses .

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section 11 of chapter 131 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the fifth paragraph the following paragraph:-

Notwithstanding  the foregoing, no fee shall be charged for any license issued hereunder to a veteran, as  defined in clause forty-three of section 7 of chapter 4 and whose last discharge or release from the armed forces of the United States was under honorable conditions and who is a resident of the commonwealth.  The commonwealth shall bear the cost of such waivers, not the department.