| Introduced: 03/13/2013Sponsor: Senator Pete Kelly
 Issue Brief: Recruitment
 Summary: Relates to big game hunting with resident children; includes grandparents and resident grandparents; amends bag limits for a Sitka blacktail deer.
 
 Status: Signed by Governor on July 29. Chapter No. 107 [Effective Rule].   
 Sponsor: Senator Kevin de LeonIssue Brief: GunsSummary: Requires the Attorney General to maintain copies of ammunition purchase permits, ammunition transactions and ammunition vendor licenses. Requires an ammunition purchaser to be authorized by the Department of Justice. Provides the date when only a licensed ammunition vendor may sell ammunition. Requires verification of identity. Relates to ammunition sales location requirements. Exempts gun shows and events. Relates to the Prohibited Armed Persons File. Relates to enhancements to the background check system.Status: In Assembly. Read second time. To third reading on June 12.  
 Introduced: 02/21/2014 Sponsor: Senator Lois Wolk Issue Brief: Conservation Funding, General Summary: Requires the expenditure of all federal grant moneys made available to the state under the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act be consistent with the Act. Requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to post a brief description of projects funded by moneys received from the federal act on its Internet Web site. Requires the Department to consult with hunting advisory committees regarding any such project. Status: To Governor on August 13. 
 California A 2105
Introduced: 02/20/2014Sponsor: Assemblymember Jim Frazier, Co-Chair, California Outdoor Sporting Caucus
 Issue Brief: General License
 Summary: Relates to the Department of Fish and Wildlife. Relates to tags, stamps, and licenses for the hunting of antelope, elk, deer, wild pigs, bear, and bighorn sheep upon payment of a fee. Requires the department to authorize a nonprofit organization designated by the department to assist in the sale of these tags to retain a percentage of the amount of the sale price of the tag, plus any applicable credit card fees.
 Status: Passed Senate. To Assembly for concurrence on August 11.  
 Illinois H 4329Intro Date: 01/27/2014Sponsor: Representative Jack Franks, Member, Illinois Legislative Sportsmen's CaucusIssue Brief: Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges Summary: Amends the Fish and Aquatic Life Code; provides that the fee shall be reduced for all sport fishing licenses, salmon stamps and inland trout stamps for residents over 75 years old who are enrolled in the Benefit Access Program; amends the Wildlife Code; provides that the fee for a hunting license to hunt all species, State Migratory Waterfowl Stamps, State Habitat Stamps, State Pheasant Stamps, and State Furbearer Stamps shall be reduced for such residents.  Status: Signed by Governor on August 1. Public Act No. 800 [Effective Rule]. 
 
Introduced:11/20/2013 Sponsor: Representative Sarah Peake, Member, Massachusetts House Sportsmen's Caucus 
Issue Brief: General 
 Summary: Relates to the fines for the illegal taking of eels and elvers.  
Michigan Scientific Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act Introduced: 08/13/2014 Sponsor: Citizen Initiative Issue Brief: General Summary: Ensures that decisions affecting the taking of fish and game are made using principles of sound scientific fish and wildlife management, provides free hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for active members of the military, and provides appropriations for fisheries management activities within Michigan necessary for rapid response, prevention, control and/or elimination of aquatic invasive species. Status: Passed Senate. Awaiting House action on August 27.    
Nevada BDR 26 Introduced: 07/16/2014 Sponsor: Assemblyman Ira Hansen, Assembly Co-Chair, Nevada Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus Issue Brief: General  Summary: Clarifies provisions governing regulation of trapping of fur-bearing mammals Status: Filed on July 16.    Nevada BDR 31 Introduced: 07/16/2014 Sponsor: Assemblyman Jim Wheeler, Member, Nevada Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus Issue Brief: General  Summary: Revises provisions governing trapping of wildlife.  Status: Filed on July 16.    Nevada BDR 89 Introduced: 07/16/2014 Sponsor: Senator James Settelmeyer, Member, Nevada Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus Issue Brief: General  Summary: Provides exemptions from registration requirements for the trapping of animals on private property  Status: Filed on July 16.    Nevada BDR 127Introduced: 07/16/2014
 Sponsor: Nevada Senate Committee on Natural ResourcesIssue Brief: General
 Summary: Revises provisions governing trapping of wildlife
 Status: Filed on July 16.
   Nevada BDR 362 Introduced: 08/04/2014 Sponsor: Nevada Dept. of WildlifeIssue Brief: General License
 Summary: Revises provisions governing processing applications for licenses, tags and permits issued by the Department of Wildlife; includes hunting and fishing
 Status: Filed on August 4.
   Nevada BDR 364 Introduced: 08/04/2014Sponsor: Nevada Dept. of Wildlife Issue Brief: General
 Summary: Revises provisions governing the stamp required for hunting of migratory waterfowl
 Status: Filed on August 4
 New Hampshire S 230Intro Date: 01/08/2014Sponsor: Senator Jeff Woodburn, Co-Chair, New Hampshire Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus Issue Brief: Off Highway Vehicles
 Summary: Adds a definition of a utility terrain vehicle used as an off highway recreational vehicle.
 
Introduced: 01/8/2014 Sponsor: Senator Jeff Woodburn, Co-Chair, New Hampshire Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus Issue Brief: Enforcement Summary: Allows fish and game conservation officers to enforce the motor vehicle laws of the state in the operation of snowmobiles, all terrain vehicles, and off highway recreational vehicles; relates to trespass on posted land and transportation of firearms for hunting. 
Introduced: 04/28/2014 Sponsor: Senator Raymond LesniakIssue Brief:  General Summary:  Prohibits sale, purchase, barter, or possession of ivory or rhinoceros horn and items containing ivory or rhinoceros horn, with limited exceptionsStatus:  Signed by Governor on August 1. Chapter No. 2014-22 [Effective Rule].   
Intro Date: 05/01/2013Sponsor: Senator Patrick Gallivan, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
 Issue Brief: Conservation Tax Incentives
 Summary: Amends the real property tax law; relates to establishing a conservation easement agreement exemption in a town having a certain population based upon the latest decennial federal census.
 Status: To Governor on August 1.
 
 
Intro Date: 05/19/2014Sponsor:  Assemblymember Patricia Fahy Issue Brief: Conservation Tax IncentiveSummary: Authorizes certain towns to adopt a local law to provide that real property whose interests or rights have been acquired for the purpose of the preservation of an open space or an open area may be partially exempt from local real property taxation, provided that the owner or owners of such property enter into a conservation easement agreement with the municipalityStatus:  Signed by Governor on August 1. Chapter No. 278 [Effective Rule]. New York S 5855  Intro Date: 06/18/2013  Sponsor: Senator Cathy Young  Issue Brief: General  Summary: Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; relates to big game hunting in the county of Livingston. Status:  Signed by Governor. Chapter No. 142 [Effective Rule] on June 22. 
  North Carolina S 744 Introduced: 05/15/2014 Sponsor: Senator Harry Brown Issue Brief: Budget Bills, Ethics/Lobbying, Deer Management Summary: Modifies the current operations and capital improvements appropriations act of 2013 and for other purposes; delays a sunset on credit for investing in renewable energy property. Status: Signed by Governor on August 7. Session Law Number 2014-100 [Effective Rule]. | 
                
                
                
                
                
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