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Act 21 of 2025 (SB 232) Replaced the free annual disabled veteran fishing license with a free lifetime license at 100 percent

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Expands and restricts Makes the lifetime license free at 100 percent and widens the $1 license, but repeals the free annual one.

Amended 30 Pa.C.S. 2707: repealed the free annual license for war-incurred or 100 percent disabilities, made the lifetime license free at a 100 percent rating on VA’s letter without proof of permanence, dropped the wartime-injury test from the $1 license at 60 to 99 percent, and widened the $1 license for deployed Guard members. Approved June 30, 2025; effective in 60 days.

Sponsor

  • Tracy PennycuickRepublican, Senate, District 24

And 13 co-sponsors

Touches 30 Pa.C.S. § 2707 · 30 Pa.C.S. § 2707.1

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