Introduced:
01/11/2017
Sponsor: Representative Melissa H. Ziobron, Member, Connecticut Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Exotic Invasive Species
Summary:
Requires the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to prepare a plan for the rapid detection and eradication of newly discovered terrestrial invasive species; develops a plan to detect terrestrial invasive species.
Status:
Public hearing scheduled (03/06/2017) on March 2
Introduced:
01/12/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Kevin Skulczyck
Issue Brief:
Sunday Hunting Restrictions
Summary:
Allows Sunday hunting on private lands.
Status:
Public hearing scheduled (03/06/2017) on March 2
Introduced:
01/12/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Stephen G. Harding
Issue Brief:
Exotic Invasive Species
Summary:
Concerns lake authorities and combating invasive plant and animal species; provides grants to lake authorities in their efforts to combat invasive plant and animal species.
Status:
Filed with Legislative Commissioner's Office on February 23
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; provides for an endorsement on the motor vehicle operator's license.
Status:
Public hearing scheduled (03/06/2017) on March 2
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Diana Urban
Issue Brief:
Ivory Bans
Summary:
Prohibits the sale of ivory and rhinoceros horn; minimizes the illegal trade of ivory and rhinoceros horn, which may fund terrorist activities.
Status:
Public hearing scheduled (03/06/2017) on March 2
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor: Senator Craig A. Miner, Co-Chair, Connecticut Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Bear Hunting
Summary:
Authorizes bear hunting.
Status:
Public hearing scheduled (03/06/2017) on March 2
Introduced:
02/16/2017
Sponsor:
Joint Committee on Environment
Issue Brief:
Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary:
Concerns sport fishing licenses for persons age sixty-five and older; establishes a fishing license fee for certain persons who are age sixty-five and older.
Status:
Public hearing scheduled (03/06/2017) on March 2
Introduced:
03/01/2017
Sponsor:
Joint Committee on Environment
Issue Brief:
"Big 5" Trophy Importation Bans
Summary:
Concerns Cecil's law; prohibits the importation of big five African species.
Status:
Public hearing scheduled (03/06/2017) on March 2
Introduced:
02/24/2017
Sponsor: Representative Russell Black, Member, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
This bill establishes a limited season for fishing from October 1st to October 31st, during which a holder of a fishing license may catch fish as long as the fish is immediately returned to the water in which it was caught.
Status:
Work session held on February 28
Introduced:
02/24/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Joel R. Stetkis
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
This bill explicitly restricts the application of the law prohibiting shooting from motor vehicles and motorboats to shooting while hunting.
Status:
Senate refers to Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in concurrence on February 28
Introduced:
02/24/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Kent Ackley
Issue Brief:
Sunday Hunting Restrictions
Summary:
This bill allows a person who possesses a valid hunting license to possess hunting equipment and to hunt deer during the regular deer hunting season described under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, section 11401, subsection 1, paragraph A, when hunters hunt with rifles, on Sunday on property that is located in a municipality, a plantation or the unorganized territory of a county that has successfully petitioned the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to allow hunting on Sunday as long as the person has obtained and is carrying the property owner's written consent to hunt with a map of the property. The bill allows a municipality, plantation or county with regard to its unorganized territory to petition the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to allow hunting on Sunday in its territory. The bill also repeals these provisions on December 1, 2021.
Status:
Senate refers to Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in concurrence on February 28
Introduced:
02/24/2017
Sponsor: Representative Roland Danny Martin, Member, Connecticut Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Hunter Recruitment, Retention, Reactivation
Summary:
Doubles the number of moose permits for auction by conservation organizations from 10 permits to 20 permits and directs the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to disburse at least 50% of the revenue from the auction to conservation organizations for the purpose of operating youth day camps.
Status:
Senate refers to Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in concurrence on February 28
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor: Representative Wayne R. Parry, Member, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
This bill allows the Commissioner of Marine Resources to adopt rules that establish different landings limits for commercial pelagic and anadromous fishing license holders who recorded landings of Atlantic herring in this State prior to January 1, 2017 and who did not record landings of Atlantic herring in this State prior to January 1, 2017.
Status:
Senate refers to Joint Committee on Marine Resources in concurrence on February 28
Introduced:
02/27/2017
Sponsor: Representative Joyce A. Maker, Member, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
White-tailed Deer Management - Hunting as a Preferred Management Tool
Summary:
Prohibits taking deer that do not have at least 3 tines of one inch or more along the main beam of one antler in Oxford, Franklin, Somerset, Piscataquis, Penobscot, Hancock, Aroostook and Washington counties except as provided by rules adopted by the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife that establish antlerless deer permits or special season deer permits.
Status:
House refers to Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife on February 28
Introduced:
02/06/2017
Sponsor:
Wicomico County Delegation
Issue Brief:
Sunday Hunting Restrictions
Summary:
Authorizes a person in Wicomico County to hunt deer on private property on specified Sundays.
Status:
In House Committee on Environment and Transportation on March 8
Introduced:
02/09/2017
Sponsor: Delegate Johnny Mautz, Member, Maryland Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
White-tailed Deer Management - Hunting as a Preferred Management Tool
Summary:
Authorizes an individual who hunts deer under a Deer Management Permit in Talbot County to use a rifle approved by the Department of Natural Resources to harvest deer under the permit if the individual holds a valid Maryland State Shooter Qualification Card and subject to the conditions set forth in the permit.
Status:
In House Committee on Environment and Transportation on March 1
Introduced:
02/10/2017
Sponsor: Delegate Herb McMillan, Member, Maryland Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Apprentice Hunting License
Summary:
Establishes an apprentice hunting license that confers specified rights on a purchaser of the license; authorizes a person to obtain an apprentice hunting license on completion of a short online or electronic course of instruction in competency in firearms and hunter safety approved by the Department of Natural Resources; authorizes specified persons to hunt under an apprentice license only if accompanied and directly supervised by a person who is at least a minimum age and has a valid resident permit.
Status:
In House Committee on Environment and Transportation on March 8
Introduced:
02/10/2017
Sponsor:
Delegate Dereck Davis
Issue Brief:
National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)
Summary:
Provides that a person who is not a specified licensee may not complete the transfer of a specified rifle or shotgun as transferor or transferee, except under specified circumstances; requires, before a specified transfer is conducted, the transferor and transferee to meet jointly with a specified licensee and request that the licensee facilitate the transfer; requires a licensee to take specified actions when facilitating a transfer.
Status:
In House Committee on Judiciary on March 14
Introduced:
02/10/2017
Sponsor: Delegate Johnny Mautz, Member, Maryland Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Hunting, Angling & Nature Appreciation in Schools
Summary:
Authorizes a conservation organization to hold a specified event on the campus of a public institution of higher education notwithstanding a provision of law, regulation, or policy that prohibits the carrying or possession of a firearm on the campus of the institution.
Status:
In House Committee on Appropriations on March 2
Introduced:
01/11/2017
Sponsor: Senator Steve Waugh, Member, Maryland Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Relates to harvest times.
Status:
Third reading passed unanimously (46-0) on March 2
Introduced:
02/01/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Ronald Young
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Repeals a prohibition in Frederick County against hunting or attempting to hunt nongame birds and mammals without first obtaining a hunting license.
Status:
Third reading passed unanimously (46-0) on March 2
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor: Senator John Astle, Co-Chair, Maryland Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Licenses (General)
Summary:
Alters the definition of hunt as it applies to the laws governing hunting and wildlife in the State to include the act of chasing or in any manner pursuing fox, whether armed or unarmed; repeals a provision of law excluding the sport of fox chasing from the definition of hunt; repeals the exemption for an unarmed person participating in an organized fox hunt from the requirement under specified circumstances to obtain a hunting license.
Status:
Reassigned to Senate Committee on Education, Health and Environmental Affairs on February 28
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Thomas Calter
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Implements a boating education program within the Division of Law Enforcement of the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Environmental Law Enforcement.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor: Representative Gailanne M. Cariddi, Member, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Relates to the feeding of wildlife.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative David DeCoste
Issue Brief:
White-tailed Deer Management - Hunting as a Preferred Management Tool
Summary:
Relates to bow hunting for deer in Wompatuck State Park.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Lori Ehrlich
Issue Brief:
Ivory Bans
Summary:
Relates to ivory and rhino horn trafficking.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Paul K. Frost
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Relates to the powers and duties of the Director of the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife within the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Environmental Law Enforcement in the management and control of wildlife.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Paul K. Frost
Issue Brief:
Modern Restraining Animal Traps
Summary:
Relates to the use of leghold traps for capturing furbearing animals.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Stephen Kulik
Issue Brief:
Modern Restraining Animal Traps
Summary:
Regulates the use of trapping devices to take beaver and muskrat.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor: Representative Stephen Kulik, Member, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Establishes old growth forest reserves in the Commonwealth.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor: Representative David Muradian, Member, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Relates to the promulgation of regulations by the Director of Fisheries and Wildlife within the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Environmental Law Enforcement for the use and possession of shotgun ammunition types for the purposes of hunting.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative David M. Nangle
Issue Brief:
Modern Restraining Animal Traps
Summary:
Regulates the trapping of fur-bearing mammals.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative William M. Straus
Issue Brief:
Sunday Hunting Restrictions
Summary:
Authorizes bow and arrow hunting on Sundays.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative William M. Straus
Issue Brief:
Modern Restraining Animal Traps
Summary:
Relates to capturing and trapping furbearing mammals.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor: Representative David T. Vieira, Co-Chair, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Relates to the hunting of coyotes with artificial light.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor: Representative Josh Cutler, Member, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Firearm Suppressors
Summary:
Relates to the penalty for the possession of firearm suppressor devices used for silencing, muffling, or diminishing the report of portable firearms.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Judiciary on February 27
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Paul K. Frost
Issue Brief:
Firearm Suppressors
Summary:
Relates to penalties for the possession of silencers or firearm noise reduction devices.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Judiciary on February 27
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative David Paul Linsky
Issue Brief:
Standard Capacity Magazines
Summary:
Relates to the feeding of wildlife.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security on February 27
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Marc T. Lombardo
Issue Brief:
Modern Sporting Rifle
Summary:
Relates to the definition of assault weapons.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security on February 27
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Paul W. Mark
Issue Brief:
Guns
Summary:
Permits the carrying of unloaded shotguns and rifles on public ways.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security on February 27
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor: Representative James R. Miceli, Member, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Firearms Preemption
Summary:
Relates to laws, ordinances or regulations concerning to the lawful ownership, use, possession, transfer, purchase, receipt or transportation of weapons, antique weapons, ammunition or ammunition components.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security on February 27
Introduced:
01/23/2017
Sponsor: Representative David T. Vieira, Co-Chair, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Guns
Summary:
Relates to the transportation of firearms by non-residents.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security on February 27
Introduced:
02/22/2017
Sponsor: Senator Anne Gobi, Co-Chair, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Enhances the management of problem wildlife.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/22/2017
Sponsor: Senator Anne Gobi, Co-Chair, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Crossbows
Summary:
Relates to the use of crossbows in hunting.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/22/2017
Sponsor: Senator Anne Gobi, Co-Chair, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Relates to the use of artificial lights in hunting.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/22/2017
Sponsor: Senator Anne Gobi, Co-Chair, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Sunday Hunting Restrictions
Summary:
Relates to bow and arrow hunting season.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/22/2017
Sponsor: Senator Anne Gobi, Co-Chair, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Relates to hunting near a dwelling.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/22/2017
Sponsor: Senator Anne Gobi, Co-Chair, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Technology and the Fair Chase Ethic; Hunting with Dogs; Right to Hunt, Fish, and Harvest Wildlife
Summary:
Relates to outdoor heritage.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/22/2017
Sponsor: Senator Donald F. Humason, Member, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Relates to the use of shotguns for hunting.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/22/2017
Sponsor: Senator Donald F. Humason, Member, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Crossbows
Summary:
Relates to the use of crossbows in hunting.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/22/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Jason M. Lewis
Issue Brief:
Ivory Bans
Summary:
Relates to ivory and rhino horn trafficking.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/22/2017
Sponsor: Senator Michael Moore, Member, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Enforcement
Summary:
Further regulates the enforcement of illegal hunting practices.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on February 27
Introduced:
02/22/2017
Sponsor: Senator Donald F. Humason, Member, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Firearm Suppressors
Summary:
Relates to firearm suppressors.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security on February 27
Introduced:
02/22/2017
Sponsor: Senator Donald F. Humason, Member, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Ammunition Restrictions (non-lead)
Summary:
Relates to the lawful sale of ammunition.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security on February 27
Introduced:
02/22/2017
Sponsor: Senator Donald F. Humason, Member, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Guns
Summary:
Relates to the lawful sale of handguns.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security on February 27
Introduced:
02/22/2017
Sponsor: Senator Donald F. Humason, Member, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Modern Sporting Rifle
Summary:
Repeals the ban on modern sporting rifles.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security on February 27
Introduced:
02/22/2017
Sponsor: Senator Michael Moore, Member, Massachusetts Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Firearm Suppressors
Summary:
Relates to firearm suppressors.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security on February 27
Introduced:
01/04/2017
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; corrects references to legislative committees.
Status:
Heard in Committee on March 2; Executive session scheduled for March 13
Introduced:
01/05/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Judith T. Spang
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Identifies and defines different types of wetlands protected under the Wetlands Protection Act.
Status:
Retained in Committee for action in second year of session on February 28
Introduced:
02/27/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Linda Greenstein
Issue Brief:
Substandard Kennels
Summary:
Establishes additional requirements for operation and oversight of animal shelters, pounds, and kennels operating as shelters or pounds, and veterinary holding facilities.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Economic Growth on February 27
Introduced:
02/28/2017
Sponsor: Senator Anthony Bucco, Member, New Jersey Angling and Hunting Conservation Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Allows possession of bear spray under certain conditions.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Economic Growth on February 28
Introduced:
01/30/2017
Sponsor:
Assembly Member Steve Englebright
Issue Brief:
Hunter Recruitment, Retention, Reactivation
Summary:
Relates to youth pheasant hunting days on Long Island.
Status:
Passed Assembly; To Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on February 28
Introduced:
02/28/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member David DiPietro, 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 for the issuance of free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses to persons who are active or reserve members of the armed Forces or the organized militia, and to honorably discharged veterans thereof who have ten or more years of military service.
Status: T
o Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation on February 28
Introduced:
01/05/2017
Sponsor: Senator Robert Ortt, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Standard Capacity Magazines; Modern Sporting Rifle
Summary:
Limits the application of the "safe act" to the counties of Suffolk, Nassau, Kings, Queens, Richmond, New York, Bronx and Westchester.
Status:
Amended in Senate Committee on Codes on February 24
Introduced:
01/09/2017
Sponsor: Senator Patrick M. Gallivan, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Crossbows
Summary:
Authorizes the taking of wildlife by the use of a crossbow; makes related provisions.
Status:
Amended in Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on March 1
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:
Withdrawn from Senate Committee on Transportation; To Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on February 27
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor: Senator Michael H. Ranzenhofer, 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; decreases fees for hunting, fishing and bowhunting for non-resident disabled veterans.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on February 23
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor: Senator Tom O'Mara, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
White-tailed Deer Management - Hunting as a Preferred Management Tool
Summary:
Establishes the yearling buck protection program.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on February 27
Introduced:
02/28/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Diane J. Savino
Issue Brief:
Knife Ban Repeal
Summary:
Amends the Penal Law; relates to the definition of a gravity knife; removes reference to the application of centrifugal force from the definition of a gravity knife.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Codes on February 28
Introduced:
02/08/2017
Sponsor: Representative David Maloney, Member, Pennsylvania Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Hunting, Angling & Nature Appreciation in Schools, Hunter Education
Summary:
Amends Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in hunting and furtaking licenses; provides for eligibility for license.
Status:
In House Committee on Game and Fisheries on March 15
Introduced:
02/14/2017
Sponsor: Representative Neal Goodman, Member, Pennsylvania Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Enforcement
Summary:
Relates to Game; relates to hunting and furtaking; provides for interference with lawful taking of wildlife or other activities permitted by this title prohibited.
Status:
In House Committee on Game and Fisheries on February 14
Introduced:
02/24/2017
Sponsor: Representative William Kortz, Member, Pennsylvania Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
American System of Conservation Funding, Licenses (General)
Summary:
Relates to fish; relates to fishing licenses; provides for nonresident and tourist licenses, for one-day resident fishing license and for license, permit and issuing agent fees; in special licenses and permits; provides for permits for protection and management of particular fish, for Lake Erie fishing permits and for fishing guide and charter boat permits.
Status:
To House Committee on Game and Fisheries on February 24
Introduced:
02/24/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Angel Cruz
Issue Brief:
Guns (General)
Summary:
Relates to firearm registration; provides for duties of the Pennsylvania State Police; imposes penalties.
Status:
To House Committee on Judiciary on February 24
Introduced:
02/28/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Angel Cruz
Issue Brief:
Guns (General)
Summary:
Relates to firearms and other dangerous articles; provides for firearm rental at shooting ranges.
Status:
To House Committee on Judiciary on February 28
Introduced:
02/28/2017
Sponsor: Senator Jim Brewster, Co-Chair, Pennsylvania Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Sunday Hunting Restrictions
Summary:
Relates to hunting and furtaking; provides for prohibition on Sunday hunting and providing for regulation of Sunday hunting by the Game Commission.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Game and Fisheries on February 28
Introduced:
02/28/2017
Sponsor: Senator Jim Brewster, Co-Chair, Pennsylvania Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
American System of Conservation Funding, Licenses (General)
Summary:
Relates to fishing licenses; provides for nonresident and tourist licenses, for one-day resident fishing license and for license, permit and issuing agent fees; provides for permits for protection and management of particular fish, for Lake Erie fishing permits and for fishing guide and charter boat permits.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Game and Fisheries on February 28
Introduced:
02/01/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Joshua Miller
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
(Resolution) Would extend the reporting and expiration dates for the special legislative commission to study waterfowl hunting laws and regulations from January 3, 2017, to November 1, 2017, and said commission would expire on December 31, 2017.
Status:
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/01/2017) on February 24
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Jay Hooper
Issue Brief:
Exotic Invasive Species
Summary:
Relates to invasive species management.
Status:
To House Committee on Agriculture and Forestry on February 24
Introduced:
01/11/2017
Sponsor:
Kevin J. Mullin
Issue Brief:
Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary:
Relates to awarding hunting and fishing licenses at no cost to persons 65 years of age or Older.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Finance on March 1
