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.
Referred to Senate Committee on Appropriations on April 18.
Intro Date: 04/17/2013
Sponsor: Senator Gerald Long, Member, Louisiana Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Hunting, Fishing and Shooting Appreciation In Schools
Summary: Urges and requests the Louisiana High School Athletic Association to establish and sanction the competitive sport of tournament bass fishing.
Status: To House Committee on Education on April 22.
Intro Date: 02/13/2013
Sponsor: Senator Troy Jackson, Co-Chair, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
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: In Senate. Committee Amendment A adopted on April 23. House accepts Committee report on April 23.
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to hunt wild animals or wild birds on the last Sunday during the open hunting season; provides that the provision is repealed in 2 years; provides that the bill is contingent on approval by the voters in a referendum at the general election in November.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. Will be heard in Committee on Tuesday, April 30 at 1:00pm in the Cross Building, Room 206.
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 37
Intro Date: 01/16/2013
Sponsor: Representative Paul Davis
Issue Brief: General
Summary: Prohibits the use of artificial lures made of rubber when angling or fishing.
Status: In House. Engrossed as amended by Committee Amendment A on April 23.
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.Intro Date: 01/21/2013
Sponsor: Representative Scott Bounds, Co-Chair, Mississippi Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Trapping
Summary: Exempts the licensure requirement for certain individuals who trap on certain private lands; prohibits the use of certain trapping devices on public lands, unless exceptions are granted therefor; authorizes the use of certain trapping devices by designated legal authority of public lands or its agent for nuisance control; requires trapping devices to have a department issued identification number on a metal tag.
Status: Signed by Governor on April 22.
Nevada S 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: To Assembly Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture and Mining on March 13. Committee hearing
on April 25 12:30 pm, Room 3161 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Cars.
Intro Date: 01/09/2013
Sponsor: Senator Patrick Gallivan
Issue Brief: General
Summary: Eliminates the requirement that hunters wear back tags during hunting season in the state.
Status: Passed Senate to Assembly on April 23.
To Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation on April 24.Intro Date: 01/09/2013
Sponsor: Senator Patrick Gallivan
Issue Brief: General
Summary: Requires the department of environmental conservation to issue documentation of hunter safety course completion.
Status: Passed Senate to Assembly on April 23.
To Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation on April 24.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: Passed Senate and onto Assembly on April 23.
To Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation on April 24.Intro Date: 01/23/2013
Sponsor: Senator Greg Ball, Co-Chair, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Licenses
Summary: Allows any qualified person to apply for voter registration and enrollment by application made with an application for any hunting or fishing license.
Status: From Senate Committee on Elections on April 22.
North Carolina S 25
Intro Date: 02/04/2013
Sponsor: Senator Harry Brown, Co-Chair, North Carolina Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary: Provides that members of the Armed Forces who are serving on active military duty in the Armed Forces of the United States outside the State of North Carolina shall be considered residents for purposes of obtaining certain hunting, fishing, trapping, and special activity licenses.
Status: Re-referred to the Senate Committee on Finance on April 23.
North Carolina S 201
Intro Date: 03/06/2013
Sponsor: Senator Shirley Randleman
Issue Brief: General
Summary: Allows hunting with a suppressor or other device designed to muffle or minimize the report of a firearm.
Status: In Senate. Placed on Calendar for April 25.
Intro Date: 04/18/2013
Sponsor: Representative Tom Murry
Issue Brief: Licenses
Summary: Designates red drum, spotted sea trout, and striped bass as coastal game fish; compensates commercial fishermen for certain losses due to coastal game fish designations; increases coastal recreational fishing license fees; appropriates funds to support the marine fisheries observer program; provides funding for the dredging of shallow draft navigation channels.
Status: To House Committee on Commerce and Job Development on April 18.
Intro Date: 04/18/2013
Sponsor: Representative Tim Moffitt, Co-Chair, North Carolina Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Licenses
Summary: Increases the fees charged for certain hunting and fishing licenses issued by the Wildlife Resources Commission; repeals the resident county hunting license, the resident county trapping license, and the resident county inland fishing license.
Status: To House Committee on Agriculture on April 18.
Intro Date: 01/14/2013
Sponsor: Representative Brian Clem and Representative Sherrie Sprenger, Member, Oregon Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Hunting Dogs
Summary: Provides that county is exempt from applicability of statute banning use of dogs to hunt black bears or cougars and use of bait to hunt black bears if voters approve county measure proposed by initiative petition or referred to people by governing body of county.
Status: Passed House and to Senate on April 23.
Pennsylvania S 623
Intro Date: 04/17/2013
Sponsor: Senator Jake Corman
Issue Brief: Apprentice Hunting License
Summary: Amends Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in hunting and furtaking licenses; further provides for license requirements and for unlawful acts concerning licenses; relates to a mentored youth hunting program.
Status: Passed House on April 24, to Senate for concurrence.
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: Eligible for Governor's desk on April 23.
