|
Recently Introduced Bills:
Connecticut H 5822
Intro Date: 01/24/2013
Sponsor: Representative David Kiner
Issue Brief: Sunday Hunting
Summary: Authorizes bow and arrow hunting on Sundays; allows hunting by bow and arrow on Sundays.
Status: Filed on January 28.
Connecticut H 5827
Intro Date: 01/24/2013
Sponsor: Representative Diana Urban
Issue Brief: Trapping
Summary: Restricts the use of leghold traps.
Status: To Joint Committee on the Environment on January 24.
Iowa D 1734 (Bill text not yet available on IA legislative website)
Intro Date: 01/30/2013
Sponsor: Representative Mary Mascher
Issue Brief: General
Summary: Relates to mourning dove hunting season repeal.
Status: Filed on January 30.
Maine LD 264 Intro Date: 01/28/2013 Sponsor: Senator Tom Saviello Issue Brief: Crossbows Summary: Allows crossbow hunting during muzzle-loading season. Status: Filed on January 28. Maine LR 613 (Bill text not yet available on ME legislative website) Intro Date: 01/28/2013 Sponsor: Representative Kenneth Fredette Issue Brief: Sunday Hunting Summary: Allows two sunday hunting days for residents only. Status: Filed on January 28. Maine LD 229 Intro Date: 01/28/2013 Sponsor: Representative Michael Shaw Issue Brief: Licenses Summary: Simplifies and encourage the sale of hunting and fishing licenses and permits. Status: Filed on January 28. Maine LR 1020 (Bill text not yet available on ME legislative website) Intro Date: 01/28/2013 Sponsor: Senator Anne Haskell Issue Brief: Lead Sinker Ban Summary: Protects Maine's loons by banning lead sinkers and jigs Status: Filed on January 28. Maryland SB 0533 Intro Date: 01/28/2013 Sponsor: Senator George Edwards Issue Brief: Guns Summary: Prohibiting the Department of Natural Resources from restricting specified licensed bow hunters from openly carrying a handgun under specified circumstances. Status: Introduced on February 5. Mississippi H 1139 Intro Date: 01/21/2013 Sponsor: Representative Scott Bounds Issue Brief: Right to Hunt/Fish Summary: Authorizes the Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to define the term "bow and arrow" for the purpose of open deer season; authorizes the taking of deer during any primitive weapon season by a hunter with any firearm of choice upon private lands vested in the hunter or upon which hunting rights have been leased to the hunter; provides that if a license is required for the taking of deer upon private lands, the hunter shall purchase and have the license in his possession.
Status: Title Deemed Sufficient by House Committee: Do Pass Recommended Substitute on January 31. Mississippi H 154 Intro Date: 01/11/2013 Sponsor: Representative Sam Mims Issue Brief: Outdoor Sporting Goods Tax Holiday Summary: Exempts from sales taxation retail sales of firearms, ammunition and hunting supplies when sold during the annual Mississippi second amendment weekend holiday beginning at 12:01 a.m. on the first Friday in September and ending at 12:00 midnight on the following Sunday. Status: Introduced to House Committee on Ways and Means on January 11. Mississippi S 2607 Intro Date: 01/21/2013 Sponsor: Senator Rita Potts Parks Issue Brief: Guns Summary: Protects the second amendment rights of Mississippi citizens; exempts firearms, firearms accessories, or ammunition manufactured and retained in the state from federal regulation under the commerce clause of the US Constitution.
Status: To Senate Committee on Judiciary, Division A on January 21. New Hampshire S 133 Intro Date: 01/3/2013 Sponsor: Senator Jeff Woodburn Issue Brief: Wildlife Violators Compact Summary: Adopts the interstate wildlife violators compact in New Hampshire, joining other member states. Status: Filed as LSR 860. Nevada SB 11 Intro Date: 02/04/2013 Sponsor: Senate Natural Resources Committee Issue Brief: General Summary: Prohibits the possession of wildlife that was acquired, hunted, taken or transported in violation of a law or regulation of another state or country; provides civil and criminal penalties.
Status: Introduced to Senate Committee on Natural Resources on February 4. Nevada SB 82 Intro Date: 02/04/2013 Sponsor: Senate Natural Resources Committee Issue Brief: General Summary: Prohibits the Board of Wildlife Commissioners from authorizing the hunting of black bears.
Status: Introduced to Senate Committee on Natural Resources on February 4. Oklahoma S 834 Intro Date: 02/04/2013 Sponsor: Senator Ralph Shortey Issue Brief: Range Protection Summary: Relates to firearms; relates to immunity; provides certain immunity for certain persons for certain occurrences at gun ranges under certain circumstances; States such immunity shall not apply to the Workers' Compensation Act; provides certain immunity to certain persons on private property for certain activities under certain circumstances.
Status: To Senate Committee on Judiciary on February 5. Oregon H 2023 Intro Date: 01/14/2013 Sponsor: Representative Brian Clem Issue Brief: Hunting Access Summary: Requires state agency to notify State Department of Fish and Wildlife before state agency restricts or closes access to state lands used for hunting; provides exceptions; requires department to post notice for 30 days on department's website before state agency may restrict or close access to state lands used for hunting.
Status: Introduced to Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources on January 22. Tennessee S 1015 Intro Date: 01/31/2013 Sponsor: Senator Mike Bell Issue Brief: Knife Preemption Summary: Relates to Weapons; removes the prohibition against selling or carrying knives with a blade in excess of 4 or the sale, possession or carrying of a switchblade knife, and preempts local regulation with respect to the transfer, ownership, possession or transportation of knives. Status: Introduced on January 31. Texas S 375 Intro Date: 02/04/2013 Sponsor: Senator Eddie Lucio Issue Brief: Licenses Summary: Relates to the expiration date of hunting and fishing licenses, stamps, permits, or tags.
Status: Introduced on February 4. Virginia S 737 Intro Date: 01/09/2013 Sponsor: Senator Chap Petersen Issue Brief: Freshwater Angling Access Summary: Relates to navigation on freshwaters; provides that the freshwaters of the Commonwealth shall be open to nonmotorized vessels for purposes of recreation between sunrise and sunset; provides that this policy will apply regardless of whether the water body is deemed to be navigable or nonnavigable or whether the adjoining banks are publicly or privately owned. Status: Committee substitute printed on January 31. Vermont H 128 Intro Date: 01/29/2013 Sponsor: Representative Patrick Brennan Issue Brief: Knife Preemption Summary: Relates to municipal authority to regulate the possession, use, and manufacture of knives. Status: To House Committee on Government Operations on February 1. | 
