Florida H 423
Intro Date: 01/22/13
Sponsor: Representative Janet Adkins
Issue Brief: Conservation Sales Tax
Summary: Relates to tax on sales, use, and other transactions; provides exemption from sales tax for dyed diesel fuel used in certain vessels in specified manner and for specified purpose.
Status: Passed House on April 12.
Illinois H 743Intro Date: 01/24/2013
Sponsor: Representative Michael Madigan, Member, Illinois Legislative Sportsmen's CaucusIssue Brief: Recruitment
Summary: Amends the Wildlife Code; requires the youth-only deer hunting season set by the Director of Natural Resources between specified dates to be 3 days rather than 2 days
Status: To Senate Committee on Agriculture and Conservation on April 16.
Kansas H 2030Intro Date: 01/17/2013
Sponsor: House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
Issue Brief: Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary: Relates to creating deer hunting permits for injured combat veterans.
Status: Signed by Governor on April 2.
Intro Date: 02/13/ 2013
Sponsor: Senator Troy Jackson
Issue Brief: Conservation Funding
Summary: Expands the types of vehicles on which a special sportsman registration plate may be displayed to include motorcycles and trailers.
Status: From Joint Committee on Transportation on April 11: Ought to Pass as Amended.Maine H 994 Intro Date: 04/09/2013
Sponsor: Representative Kenneth Fredette
Issue Brief: Sunday Hunting
Summary: Allows a person with a resident junior hunting license or a resident hunting license to hunt wild animals or wild birds on the last Sunday during the open hunting season; provides that the provision is repealed in 2 years; provides that the bill is contingent on approval by the voters in a referendum at the general election in November.
Status: Senate refers to Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in concurrence on April 10.
Intro Date: 04/02/2013
Sponsor: Representative Kenneth Fredette
Issue Brief: Right to Hunt/Fish
Summary: (Resolution)Proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to provide that the citizens of Maine have the personal right to hunt, fish and harvest wildlife, subject to laws and rules that promote wildlife conservation and preserve the future of hunting and fishing, and to provide that public hunting and fishing are a preferred means of managing and controlling wildlife.
Status: Senate refers to Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in concurrence on April 2.Maine H 81
Intro Date: 01/23/2013
Sponsor: Representative Stephen Wood, Co-Chair, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Crossbows
Summary: Allows a person to hunt with a crossbow during an expanded archery deer hunting season that is established by rule of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.
Status: From Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife on April 12: with divided report.Michigan H 4552Intro Date: 04/16/2013
Sponsor: Representative Jon Bumstead. Co-Chair, Michigan Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: General
Summary: Provides for Natural Resources Commission ability to designate species as game.
Status: To House Committee on Natural Resources on April 16.
New York S 1699Intro Date: 01/09/2013
Sponsor: Senator Patrick Gallivan
Issue Brief: Crossbows
Summary: Permits hunting with crossbows in certain circumstances; makes permanent certain provisions permitting hunting with crossbows.
Status: To Senate Committee on Finance on April 16.New York S 4222Intro Date: 03/14/2013
Sponsor: Senator Kenneth LaValle
Issue Brief: Youth Hunting
Summary: Relates to youth pheasant hunting days on Long Island.
Status: From Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on April 16.
North Carolina S 201
Intro Date: 03/06/2013
Sponsor: Senator Shirley Randleman
Issue Brief: Apprentice Hunting Licenses
Summary: Allows hunting with a suppressor or other device designed to muffle or minimize the report of a firearm.
Status: Re-referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary on April 9.
North Carolina S 234
Intro Date: 03/11/2013
Sponsor: Senator Buck Newton, Co-Chair, North Carolina Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Apprentice Hunting Licenses
Summary: Amends and clarifies the hunter education requirements and to establish a hunting heritage apprentice permit.
Status: To House Committee on Environment in April 15.
Pennsylvania S 647
Intro Date: 03/13/2013
Sponsor: Senator Richard Alloway, Co-Chair, Pennsylvania Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Public Access to Private Lands
Summary: Amends Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in enforcement; further provides for the powers and duties of enforcement officers; further provides for the offense of trespass on private property while hunting in hunting and fur-taking.
Status: From Senate Committee on Game and Fisheries.
Intro Date: 04/09/2013
Sponsor: Senator Katrina Shealy
Issue Brief: Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary: Relates to licenses for disabled residents; provides that a veteran classified as at least fifty percent disabled or higher as determined by the veterans administration may obtain a three-year disability combination license or a three-year disability fishing license for a one-time fee of ten dollars.
Status: To Senate Committee on Fish, Game and Forestry on April 9.
South Carolina S 584
Intro Date: 04/09/2013
Sponsor: Senator Chip Campsen
Issue Brief: Apprentice Hunting License
Summary: Relates to hunting and fishing licenses; defines license sales vendor and license year; relates to the duration of hunting and fishing licenses; provides for the duration of licenses for recreational and commercial use, and permits the department to issue a license that expires on the day before the anniversary of its issuance; relates to residency requirements for licenses; revises the requirements; relates to apprentice hunting licenses.
Status: To Senate Committee on Fish, Game and Forestry on April 9.
Tennessee S 1015
Intro Date: 01/31/2013
Sponsor: Senator Mike Bell, Co-Chair, Tennessee Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
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: Passed House. To Senate for concurrence on April 16.
West Virginia HCR 150 Intro Date: 04/11/2013
Sponsor: Representative Kevin Craig
Issue Brief: Crossbows
Summary: Requests a study in regard to whether crossbow hunting should be authorized.Status: From House Committee on Rules on April 12: Do pass.
