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.
To enrollment on April 30.
Intro Date: 02/13/2013
Sponsor: Senator David Koehler, Member, Illinois Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: General
Summary:Amends the Wildlife Code by making it illegal to wantonly waste or destroy usable meat from game animals; defines usable meat and details locations where individuals may not dispose of harvested wildlife carcasses or parts; provides that it shall not be unlawful to discard game meat that is determined to be unfit for human consumption.
Status: In House. Placed on Short Debate Calendar Second Reading on May 1. Indiana H 1563
Intro Date: 01/22/2013
Sponsor: Representative Sean Eberhart, Member, Indiana Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Guns
Summary: Relates to fish and wildlife matters; repeals certain prohibitions against the possession or use of a silencer while in the act of hunting.
Status: Eligible for Governor's desk on April 26.
Intro Date: 01/22/13
Sponsor: House Veterans Affairs Committee
Issue Brief: Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary: Requires the director of the Department of Natural Resources to issue special deer hunting licenses and wild turkey hunting licenses to certain nonresident disabled veterans and disabled persons currently on active federal military service for use on hunts conducted by organizations that conduct hunting experiences in the state for such persons; provides that the director is required to make available 25 of the 75 special nonresident deer hunting licenses that are currently allocated by a committee to/.
Status: Signed by Governor on April 24.
Intro Date: 03/12/2013
Sponsor: House Natural Resources Committee
Issue Brief: Invasive Species
Summary: Relates to the prevention and control of aquatic invasive species in the waters of the state; provides penalties; provides a new definition for what constitutes an aquatic invasive species; provides new definitions of aquatic plant, bait, and water-related equipment.
Status: Signed by Governor on April 24.
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 House. Engrossed as amended by Committee Amendment A on April 25. Eligible for Governor's desk on May 1.
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: Eligible for the Governor's desk on May 1.
Intro Date: 02/13/2013
Sponsor: Representative Craig Hickman
Issue Brief: General
Summary: Establishes an open season for hunting wild turkeys for the month of October, during which there is no bag limit.Status: Eligible for the Governor's desk on April 25.
Maine H 1055
Intro Date: 04/26/2013
Sponsor: Representative Denise Harlow
Issue Brief: Hunting with Dogs
Summary: Prohibits, with certain exceptions, hunting bear with dogs and trapping bear. The bill also sets a permanent closed season on bear hunting from January 1st through July 31st and decreases the bear bag limit from 2 to one. In addition, the bill prohibits the trade in bear gall bladders and imposes increased penalties for bear poaching for repeat offenders.Status: Senate refers to Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in concurrence on April 30.
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 23.
New York S 3563Intro Date: 02/05/2013
Sponsor: Senator James Seward, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Animal Traps
Summary: Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; exempts traps set in water from the requirement that they be visited once every 24 hours; such traps shall be visited once every 48 hours or a Shorter interval as determined by the department of environmental conservation.
Status: From Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on April 30.
Intro Date: 03/14/2013Sponsor: 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.
New York A 6908Intro Date: 04/24/2013
Sponsor: Assemblyman Robert Sweeney, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Recruitment
Summary: Relates to youth pheasant hunting days on Long Island.
Status: From Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation on April 30. New York A 3767Intro Date: 01/29/2013
Sponsor: Assemblywoman Deborah Glick
Issue Brief: Invasive Species
Summary: Prohibits the sale, possession or transportation of feral Pigs.
Status: To Assembly Committee on Codes on April 30. 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 Senate Committee on Rules and Operations of the Senate on May 1.
North Carolina S 58Intro Date: 02/06/2013
Sponsor: Senator Harry Brown, Co-Chair, North Carolina Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: General
Summary: Provides additional funding for dredging of the state's shallow draft navigation channels.
Status: In Senate. Finance committee substitute adopted on Senate floor on May 1.
North Carolina S 201
Intro Date: 03/06/2013
Sponsor: Senator Shirley Randleman
Issue Brief: Guns
Summary: Allows hunting with a suppressor or other device designed to muffle or minimize the report of a firearm.
Status: To House Committee on Agriculture on April 30.
Oregon H 2783
Intro Date: 01/14/2013Sponsor: House Rules Committee
Issue Brief: Hunting with Dogs
Summary: Creates offense of unlawful tethering; punishes by maximum of $1,000 fine; specifies that person commits crime of animal neglect in first degree if person tethers domestic animal and tethering results in serious injury or death to animal; specifies that person commits crime of animal neglect in second degree if person tethers domestic animal and tethering results in physical injury to animal.
Status: To the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on April 23. Committee hearing on 05/02/2013 8:30 am, HR 343Pennsylvania 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.Pennsylvania S 648
Intro Date: 03/13/2013
Sponsor: Senator Richard Alloway, Co-Chair, Pennsylvania Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Access to Private Lands
Summary: Amends Title 34 (game) of the Consolidated Statutes, in enforcement; further provides for hunting liability for actions of others; provides that a landowner who allows or grants permission to another person to take game or wildlife on the landowner's property shall not be liable under this section for any unlawful acts committed by that person so long as no fee, payment or gratuity is paid.
Status: In the Senate. Read the second time on April 30.
Intro Date: 01/29/2013
Sponsor: Representative Matt Baker
Issue Brief: Right to Hunt and Fish
Summary: Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, providing for the right to hunt, fish and harvest game.
Status: In House. Removed from table on April 24.
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 House Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs on April 30.Vermont H 101Intro Date: 01/25/2013
Sponsor: Representative David Deen, Member, Vermont Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Crossbows and Handgun Carry while Archery Hunting
Summary: Relates to the clarification of provisions regarding the posting of land and access to land and water for hunting, fishing, and trapping.
Status: From Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy: Recommended with amendment on April 25.
