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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 2647

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 1915 Session of 2007


        INTRODUCED BY STABACK, BARRAR, BELFANTI, BIANCUCCI, BRENNAN,
           CALTAGIRONE, CAPPELLI, CARROLL, CAUSER, COHEN, CONKLIN,
           CREIGHTON, DALLY, D. EVANS, EVERETT, FRANKEL, FREEMAN,
           GEORGE, GODSHALL, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HARHAI, HARKINS, HARRIS,
           HERSHEY, HESS, HICKERNELL, JOSEPHS, KAUFFMAN, KORTZ, KOTIK,
           KULA, LENTZ, LONGIETTI, MANN, MARKOSEK, MARSICO, McGEEHAN,
           McILHATTAN, MILLARD, R. MILLER, MURT, NAILOR, PETRARCA,
           PETRONE, PHILLIPS, PICKETT, PYLE, QUINN, READSHAW, SCAVELLO,
           SHIMKUS, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, SOLOBAY, R. STEVENSON, SURRA,
           J. TAYLOR, WHEATLEY, WOJNAROSKI AND ROHRER, OCTOBER 16, 2007

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, OCTOBER 16, 2007

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
     2     Statutes, in fishing licenses, further providing for deployed
     3     Pennsylvania National Guard members and for reserve component
     4     of armed forces members.

     5     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     6  hereby enacts as follows:
     7     Section 1.  Sections 2707.1(a) and 2707.2(a) of Title 30 of
     8  the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
     9  § 2707.1.  Deployed Pennsylvania National Guard members.
    10     (a)  Eligibility.--The commission or a county treasurer shall
    11  issue one annual resident fishing license at a cost of $1 to any
    12  person eligible under section 2701 (relating to resident fishing
    13  licenses) for the license who provides documentation that within
    14  the previous 24 months the person was deployed overseas as a
    15  member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard or Air National

     1  Guard on active Federal service for a period of [180] 60
     2  consecutive days or more or was released early from such service
     3  because of an injury or disease incurred in the line of duty.
     4  Only one Pennsylvania National Guard fishing license under this
     5  section may be issued for each qualifying deployment of a person
     6  applying for the license.
     7     * * *
     8  § 2707.2.  Reserve component of armed forces members.
     9     (a)  Eligibility.--The commission or a county treasurer shall
    10  issue one annual resident fishing license at a cost of $1 to any
    11  person eligible for the license under section 2701 (relating to
    12  resident fishing licenses) who provides documentation that
    13  within the previous 24 months the person was deployed overseas
    14  as a member of the reserve component of the armed forces
    15  pursuant to 51 Pa.C.S. § 7301 (relating to definitions) for a
    16  period of [180] 60 consecutive days or more or was released
    17  early from service because of an injury or disease incurred in
    18  the line of duty. Only one fishing license under this section
    19  may be issued for each qualifying deployment of a person
    20  applying for the license.
    21     * * *
    22     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.






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