00                             SENATE BILL NO. 79                                                                          
01 "An Act relating to sport fishing, hunting, and trapping identification cards."                                         
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 16.05.400(b) is amended to read:                                                                   
04 (b)  Upon request, and without charge, the commissioner shall issue a sport                                             
05 fishing, hunting, or trapping identification card to a resident who is 60 years of age or                               
06 older or who has been discharged from military service under honorable                                              
07 conditions, is eligible for a loan under AS 18.56.101, and is certified by the United                               
08 States Department of Veterans Affairs as having incurred a 50 percent or greater                                    
09 disability during military service. The commissioner shall issue a permanent                                        
10 identification card without charge to a person who qualifies [BY AGE AND                                                
11 RESIDENCE] and who completes the forms required by the commissioner for                                                 
12 implementation of this subsection. A person who is issued a permanent identification                                    
13 card under this subsection may not sport fish, hunt, or trap without having a valid                                     
14 identification card issued under this subsection or the appropriate license in                                          
15       possession.