Introduced:
01/19/2017
Sponsor: Representative Robert C. Sampson, Member, Connecticut Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Licenses (General)
Summary:
Authorizes lifetime hunting and fishing licenses; allows for the purchase of lifetime hunting and lifetime fishing licenses.
Status:
Vote to Draft on January 23
Introduced:
01/19/2017
Sponsor:
Representative David A. Baram
Issue Brief:
Lead Ammunition and Fishing Tackle Bans
Summary:
Prohibits the manufacture, sale and use of fishing tackle that contains lead; protects loons and other diving birds from ingesting toxic lead through fish sources and other marine debris in order to preserve the health of such birds.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment on January 19
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor: Representative Robert C. Sampson, Member, Connecticut Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Guns (General)
Summary:
Repeals gun control legislation enacted in 2013.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Judiciary on January 20
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Kevin Skulczyck
Issue Brief:
Ammunition Restrictions (non-lead); Guns (General)
Summary:
Repeals certain gun control legislation; repeals gun control legislation.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Public safety and security on January 20
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor: Representative Doug Dubitsky, Member, Connecticut Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Modern Sporting Rifle
Summary:
Excludes rimfire target pistols from the definition of assault weapon; excludes from the definition of assault weapon any rimfire target pistols that are designed for use in target shooting events at the Olympic games.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security on January 20
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Anne Dauphinais
Issue Brief:
Licenses (General)
Summary:
Authorizes the unlimited taking of game pursuant to a hunting license; removes limits on the number of game that may be taken pursuant to a hunting license.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment on January 23
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Diana S. Urban
Issue Brief:
Ivory Ban
Summary:
Prohibits the sale of ivory and rhinoceros horn; minimizes the illegal trade of ivory and rhinoceros horn, which may fund terrorist activities.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment on January 23
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Rick Lopes
Issue Brief: Firearm Suppressors
Summary:
Authorizes the use of suppressors on hunting rifles; reduces hearing loss and hearing damage from firearm discharges.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment on January 23
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Mitch Bolinsky
Issue Brief:
Ivory Ban
Summary:
Concerns the sale and trade of ivory and rhinoceros horn in the state; prohibits the sale and trade of ivory and rhinoceros horn in the state while preserving the antiques trade in Connecticut.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment on January 23
Introduced:
01/24/2017
Sponsor: Representative Doug Dubitsky, Member, Connecticut Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Guns (General)
Summary:
Concerns permit and certificate to carry a firearm reciprocity; secures permit or certificate reciprocity between Connecticut and other States that have substantially similar standards for carrying a concealed firearm.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Judiciary on January 24
Introduced:
01/19/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Bob Duff
Issue Brief:
Wolf in Sheeps Clothing/ Animal Rights Groups
Summary:
Concerns Cecil's law; deters the taking of big-game animals as hunting trophies.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment on January 19
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Carlo Leone
Issue Brief:
Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military, Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary:
Provides for discounted hunting, trapping and fishing licenses for certain veterans; promotes activities that may assist rehabilitation and recuperation for veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Veterans' Affairs on January 20
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor: Senator Craig A. Miner, Co-Chair, Connecticut Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Requires the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to establish a dove hunting season; allows dove hunting.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment on January 20
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor: Senator Craig A. Miner, Co-Chair, Connecticut Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Authorizes bear hunting.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment on January 20
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor: Senator Craig A. Miner, Co-Chair, Connecticut Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Licenses (General)
Summary:
Requires the adoption of regulations to establish a lifetime hunting and fishing license; establishes a lifetime hunting and fishing license.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment on January 20
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor:
Senator L. Scott Frantz
Issue Brief:
Modern Sporting Rifle
Summary:
Concerns lower-powered rimfire target pistols; allows the purchase and possession of any .22 caliber rimfire target pistol.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security on January 23
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor: Senator Joe Markley, Member, Connecticut Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Modern Sporting Rifle
Summary:
Concerns rimfire target pistols; excludes from the definition of assault weapon any .22 caliber rimfire target pistol that is designed for use in target shooting.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security on January 23
Introduced:
01/10/2017
Sponsor: Representative Peter A. Lyford, Member, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Summary This bill repeals the prohibition against baiting deer.
Status:
Senate refers to Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in Concurrence on January 11
Introduced:
01/12/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Scott Walter Strom
Issue Brief:
Sunday Hunting Restrictions
Summary:
Allows hunting on Sundays on private property with the permission of the landowner.
Status:
Senate refers to Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in concurrence on January 19
Introduced:
01/12/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Robert W. Alley
Issue Brief:
White-tailed Deer Management - Hunting as a preferred Management Tool
Summary:
Assists island and coastal communities with controlling excess deer populations.
Status:
Senate refers to Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in concurrence on January 19
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor:
Representative David G. Haggan
Issue Brief:
Sunday Hunting Restrictions
Summary:
Creates an exception to the prohibition against hunting wild birds on Sunday; allows hunting wild birds on Sunday in Aroostook County and in unorganized townships in the counties of Piscataquis, Somerset, Franklin, Oxford, Kennebec, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Androscoggin, Cumberland and York.
Status:
Filed ad LR 336 on January 20
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor: Senator Paul T. Davis, Member, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Licenses (General)
Summary:
Restricts eligibility to apply for a moose hunting permit to residents, nonresidents and aliens 8 years of age and older.
Status:
Filed as LR 434 on January 20
Introduced
: 1/20/2017
Sponsor
: Senator Douglas J.J. Peters
Issue Brief
: Conservation Tax Incentives
Summary
: Provides a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for the first $250,000 in proceeds from the sale of a perpetual conservation easement on real property in the State.
Status
: To Senate Committee on Budget and Taxation on January 20
Introduced
: 1/20/2017
Sponsor
: Senator Ronald Young
Issue Brief:
Fishing Tournaments
Summary
: Prohibits a person from organizing, sponsoring, promoting, conducting, or participating in a cownose ray fishing tournament in State Waters; requires the Secretary of Natural Resources to adopt specified regulations.
Status
: In Senate Committee on Education, Health & Environmental Affairs on January 31
Prefiled:
01/19/2017
Sponsor: Representative David T. Vieira, Co-Chair, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Relates to hunting with artificial light.
Status:
Filed on January 19
Prefiled:
01/19/2017
Sponsor: Representative Josh Cutler, Member, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Firearm Suppressors
Summary:
Relates to firearm suppressor safety.
Status:
Filed on January 19
Introduced:
1/04/2017
Sponsor: Representative Mark Proulx, Member, New
Hampshire Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Allows a person to carry a loaded rifle, shotgun, or crossbow in a motor vehicle, OHRV, snowmobile, aircraft, or boat.
Status:
Executive Session: 01/31 on January 25
Introduced:
01/04/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Peter W. Bixby
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Prohibits hunting on Willand Pond in the cities of Dover and Somersworth; 17-0048 10/08.
Status:
Executive Session: 01/31 on January 25
Introduced:
1/04/2017
Sponsor:
Representative John A. Mullen
Issue Brief:
Terminally Ill Youth Hunting Opportunities
Summary:
Allows permits issued to Hunt Of A Lifetime to provide hunting adventures to New Hampshire residents 21 years of age or under with life-threatening, critical, or terminal illnesses to be used by nonresident applicants.
Status:
Executive Session: 01/31 on January 25
Introduced:
1/04/2017
Sponsor: Representative Gene G. Chandler, Co-Chair, New Hampshire Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
American System of Conservation Funding
Summary:
Provides for a portion of funds in the wildlife habitat account to be used for fish and game department boundary work, and prohibits wildlife habitat account and fisheries habitat account funds from being expended for equipment; the bill also corrects references to legislative committees.
Status:
Executive Session: 01/31 on January 25
Introduced:
1/04/2017
Sponsor:
Representative David Bates
Issue Brief:
College Student Hunting/Angling Licenses
Summary:
Repeals the law allowing nonresident full-time students to purchase a fish and game hunting or fishing license at the resident cost
Status:
Executive Session: 01/31 on January 25
Introduced:
01/05/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Katherine D. Rogers
Issue Brief:
Wolf in Sheeps Clothing/ Animal Rights Groups
Summary:
Applies certain provisions for the crime of animal cruelty to wild animals not in captivity.
Status:
Executive Session: 01/31 on January 25
Introduced:
01/05/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Raymond Gagnon
Issue Brief:
Crossbows
Summary:
Adds the use of a crossbow to the archery license for bow and arrow.
Status:
Executive Session: 01/24 on January 25
Introduced:
01/05/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Karel A. Crawford
Issue Brief:
Crossbows
Summary:
Allows a person 68 years of age or older to hunt by crossbow and to acquire a perpetual crossbow permit to take any species permitted to be taken by bow and arrow.
Status:
Executive Session: 01/31 on January 25
Introduced:
1/04/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Jeb E. Bradley
Issue Brief:
Guns (General)
Summary:
Repeals the licensing requirement for carrying a concealed pistol or revolver.
Status:
Public Hearing: 02/1 on January 25
Introduced: 01/19/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member Vincent Mazzeo
Issue Brief: General
Summary: Urges National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct new summer flounder assessment before implementing catch limits for 2017.
Status: Resolution Passed Assembly (67-0-0) on January 23
Introduced
: 1/27/2016
Sponsor
: Representative Bob Andrzejczak
Issue Brief
: Licenses (General)
Summary
: Establishes multi-species depredation permit.
Status
: Passed Assembly. To Senate on January 23
Introduced
: 2/16/2016
Sponsor
: Senator Jeff Van Drew, Member, New Jersey Angling and Hunting Conservation Caucus
Issue Brief
: Tethering of Dogs
Summary
: Establishes requirements concerning necessary care of dogs, domestic companion animals and service animals, and for tethering of dogs; provides that it is unlawful to expose any dog, domestic companion animal or service animal to adverse environmental conditions for more than specified minutes, unless the animal has continuous access to proper shelter; provides for evacuation with such animals due to emergencies.
Status
: In Senate Committee on Budget and Appropriations on January 30
Introduced:
01/05/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member Aileen M. Gunther, Co-Chair, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Imposes a moratorium on the prohibition of feeding white-tailed deer in Sullivan county.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation on January 5
Introduced:
01/05/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member Aileen M. Gunther, Co-Chair, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
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:
To Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation on January 5
Introduced:
01/19/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member Aileen M. Gunther, Co-Chair, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; eliminates the requirement that hunters wear back tags during hunting season in the state.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation on January 9
Introduced:
01/19/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member Aileen M. Gunther, Co-Chair, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Off Highway Vehicles
Summary:
Amends the Vehicle and Traffic Law; establishes a non-trail snowmobile registration for snowmobiles which shall be used solely for the purpose of gaining access to hunting and fishing areas; requires a registration fee and a specified sum of which shall be deposited in a snowmobile trail development and maintenance fund.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Transportation on January 9
Introduced:
01/17/2017
Sponsor:
Assembly Member Thomas J. Abinanti
Issue Brief: Guns (General)
Summary:
Enacts the children's weapon accident prevention act; creates crimes of failure to store a weapon safely in the first and second degrees, aggravated failure to store a weapon safely, and criminally negligent storage of a weapon in the first and second degrees; provides affirmative defenses; directs the commissioner of education to develop a weapons safety program.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Codes on January 17
Introduced:
01/18/2017
Sponsor:
Assembly Member Fred W. Thiele
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; prohibits the taking of striped bass during the period of January 1 to April 15; changes from December 15.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation on January 18
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member Clifford W. Crouch, Co-Chair, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General; Off Highway Vehicles
Summary:
Amends the Vehicle & Traffic Law; provides that certified handicapped individuals may use an ATVs on public land for transportation purposes only, during the hunting season.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Transportation on January 20
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member Marc W. Butler, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Modern Sporting Rifle
Summary:
Amends the Penal Law; relates to the definition of assault weapons; removes certain characteristics from the definition of assault weapons.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Codes on January 23
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor:
Assembly Member Steve Englebright
Issue Brief:
Guns (General)
Summary:
Prohibits the possession of concealed firearms in any national park or national wildlife refuge system; imposes a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 for a violation thereof.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Tourism, Arts and Sports Development on January 23
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member Brian M. Kolb, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Guns (General)
Summary:
Amends the Penal Law; creates a process for the issuance of a temporary permit to carry or possess a firearm for persons who are not residents of the state of New York; provides an affirmative defense to possession of a loaded firearm by certain persons and provides reciprocity for persons licensed in other states.
Status:
To Assembly on Codes on January 23
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member Marc W. Butler,
Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military, Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; provides that a resident of the state for a period of three months prior to the date of application and who is otherwise qualified for certain hunting, fishing and big game licenses and who has a disability as defined in the executive law shall be entitled to receive such license at 50% of the cost set by statute.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation on January 23
Introduced:
01/04/2017
Sponsor: Senator Phil Boyle, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; prohibits the hunting or taking of wildlife with the aid of an unmanned aerial vehicle.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on January 4
Introduced:
01/04/2017
Sponsor: Senator Robert Ortt, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
White-tailed Deer Management - Hunting as a preferred Management Tool; Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military, Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; provides that for the issuance of deer management permits for certain disabled veterans, such veterans shall only have to provide proof of service-related disability once and every year thereafter, provide proof of an expired permit.
Status:
From Senate Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs on January 23
Introduced:
01/04/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Elizabeth Little
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Enacts the "Adirondack sportsmen's club preservation act"; provides that state acquisition of open space land shall only be undertaken with a willing seller and shall remain subject to the leases of sportsmen's clubs thereon.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Finance on January 4
Introduced:
01/13/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Pamela Helming
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; provides that the open season for hunting coyotes shall be all year long, provided that the county legislature has a resolution authorizing such hunting within the county.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on January 13
Introduced:
01/17/2017
Sponsor: Senator Tom O'Mara,
Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Hunting, Angling & Nature Appreciation in Schools; Hunter Education
Summary:
Relates to hunting, fishing and outdoor education in high school physical education courses.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on January 17
Introduced:
01/18/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Catharine Young
Issue Brief:
Hunting with Dogs
Summary:
Provides that dogs engaged in hunting and training as authorized by the environmental conservation law, shall not be deemed to be running at large in violation of any local law or ordinance.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Agriculture on January 18
Introduced:
01/18/2017
Sponsor: Senator Patrick M. Gallivan, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; eliminates the requirement that hunters wear back tags during hunting season in the state.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Environmental; Conservation on January 18
Introduced:
01/19/2017
Sponsor: Senator Michael H. Ranzenhofer, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; protects certain information on hunting, fishing and trapping license and permit applications from disclosure or release outside of the department of environmental conservation.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on January 19
Introduced:
01/19/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Jose M. Serrano
Issue Brief:
Guns (General)
Summary:
Prohibits the possession of concealed firearms in any national park or national wildlife refuge system; imposes a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 for a violation thereof.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Culture Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation on January 19
Introduced:
01/19/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Jose M. Serrano
Issue Brief:
Modern Restraining Animal Traps
Summary:
Provides that each county within the state may limit, restrict or prohibit trapping within its municipal limits; provides that municipalities may do so by local law or ordinance.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Environmental; Conservation on January 19
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor: Senator Joseph A. Griffo, Co-Chair, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Apprentice Hunting License
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; relates to lowering the age for universal hunting licenses from 14 years old to 12 years old.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Environmental; Conservation on January 20
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor: Senator Joseph A. Griffo, Co-Chair, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Licenses (General)
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; relates to the transfer of lifetime hunting licenses.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on January 20
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor: Senator Patrick M. Gallivan, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Standard Capacity Magazines
Summary:
Amends the Penal Law; exempts certain large capacity ammunition feeding devices from certain requirements of the penal law.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Codes on January 20
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor: Senator Patrick M. Gallivan, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Guns (General); Standard Capacity Magazines
Summary:
Authorizes the transfer of certain weapons from an estate to an immediate member of the decedent's family; expands definition of immediate family to include siblings, grandparents and grandchildren as such term relates to the sale or disposal of certain firearms; relates to the filing of approved applications for licenses for the possession of firearms; exempts certain large capacity ammunition feeding devices from certain requirements of the penal law; repeals provision of law prohibiting the possession.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Codes on January 23
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor: Senator Patrick M. Gallivan, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Amends the generally; regulates taking of moose in the same manner as deer hunting and trapping are currently regulated.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Transportation on January 23
Introduced:
01/24/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Michael Gianaris
Issue Brief:
Guns (General)
Summary:
Amends the Penal Law; requires persons possessing any firearm to hold a firearms safety certificate; establishes application and training process therefor.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Code on January 24
Introduced
: 1/23/2017
Sponsor
: Representative Ryan Bizzarro, Member, Pennsylvania Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief
: Tethering of Dogs; Hunting with Dogs
Summary
: Amends Title 18, crimes and offenses, of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in riot, disorderly conduct and related offenses; provides for the offense of cruelty to animals.
Status
: To House Committee on Judiciary on January 23
Introduced
: 1/23/2017
Sponsor
: Representative Rick Saccone
Issue Brief
: Guns (General)
Summary
: Amends the act of October 27, 1955 (P.L.744, No.222), known as the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act; provides for title of act, for findings and declaration of policy, for right to freedom from discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodation, for definitions, for unlawful discriminatory practices and for prohibition of certain real estate practices.
Status
: To House Committee on State Government on January 23
Introduced
: 1/23/2017
Sponsor
: Representative Robert Godshall,Member, Pennsylvania Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Sunday Hunting
Summary
: Amends Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in hunting and fur taking; provides for prohibition on Sunday hunting and providing for regulation of Sunday hunting by the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Status
: To House Committee on Game and Fisheries on January 23
Introduced
: 1/24/2017
Sponsor
: Representative Ed Gainey
Issue Brief
: Standard Capacity Magazines; Modern Sporting Rifles
Summary
: Amends Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in firearms and other dangerous articles; prohibits certain assault weapons.
Status
: To House Committee on Judiciary on January 24
Introduced
: 1/20/2017
Sponsor
: Senator Mario Scavello, Member, Pennsylvania Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief
: Sunday Hunting
Summary
: Amends the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Game provision, in hunting and fur-taking; provides for hunting on Sunday prohibited.
Status
: To Senate Committee on Game and Fisheries on January 20
Introduced
: 1/20/2017
Sponsor
: Senator Mario Scavello, Member, Pennsylvania Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief: Hunting with Dogs
Summary
: Amends Game of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in hunting and fur-taking; provides for dogs pursuing, injuring or killing big game.
Status
: To Senate Committee on Game and Fisheries on January 20
Introduced:
01/19/2017
Sponsor:
Representative J. Aaron Regunberg
Issue Brief:
Standard Capacity Magazines
Summary:
Would criminalize the manufacture, import, possession, purchase, sale or transfer of any ammunition feeding device capable of accepting more than ten (10) rounds. This act would take effect upon passage.
Status:
To House Committee on Judiciary on January 19
Introduced:
01/13/2017
Sponsor: Representative David L. Deen, Member, Vermont Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Relates to the designation of heritage trout Waters.
Status:
To House Committee on Natural Resources, Fish, and Wildlife on January 17