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.
Status:
To Joint Committee on Appropriations on May 10
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:
Reported out of Legislative Commissioner's Office on May 9
Delaware H 95
Introduced:
03/28/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Sean Lynn
Issue Brief:
Ivory Bans
Summary:
Prohibits a person from purchasing, selling, offering for sale, possessing with intent to sell, or importing with intent to sell ivory or rhinoceros horn, except as specified; violations of this Act or any rule, regulation, or order adopted under this Act is a misdemeanor subject to fines, imprisonment, or both, as specified in this Act; adds to the specified criminal penalties.
Status:
In House Committee on Natural Resources on May 10
Introduced:
04/04/2017
Sponsor: Representative Stephen Smyk, Member, Delaware Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Firearm Suppressors
Summary:
Relates to importers, manufacturers and dealers of destructive weapons that are licensed and regulated under Federal law; relates to existing law, importers, manufacturers and dealers of destructive weapons are not permitted to deliver them to purchasers in the state who are otherwise permitted to own such weapons, such as military or police forces; permits properly licensed importers, manufacturers and dealers to possess and store destructive weapons in this state.
Status:
From House Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security: reported without recommendation on May 10
Introduced:
03/16/2017
Sponsor: Senator F. Gary Simpson, Member, Delaware Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
White-tailed Deer Management - Hunting as a preferred Management Tool
Summary:
Allows a hunter to use a handgun in lieu of a shotgun on farms permitted by DNREC through their Deer depredation programs to reduce agricultural crop damage.
Status:
From House Committee on Natural Resources: reported without recommendation on May 10
Introduced:
01/09/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Raymond A. Wallace
Issue Brief:
Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary:
This bill provides that a veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States is exempt from hunter safety course requirements if that veteran provides at the time of application for a hunting license that veteran's Armed Forces Report of Transfer or Discharge, DD Form 214, or its predecessor or successor forms, or certification from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or the appropriate branch of the Armed Forces of the United States verifying the applicant's military service and honorable discharge.
Status:
Placed in Legislative File (dead) on May 4
Introduced:
01/10/2017
Sponsor:
Representative David Harold McCrea
Issue Brief:
Sunday Hunting Restrictions
Summary:
Allows licensed hunters to hunt wild birds on Sundays with a shotgun.
Status:
In Senate. Placed in Legislative File (dead) on May 9
Introduced:
01/12/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Scot Walter Strom
Issue Brief:
Sunday Hunting Restrictions
Summary:
Allows hunting on Sundays on private property with the permission of the landowner.
Status:
In Senate. Placed in Legislative File (dead) on May 9
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:
In Senate. Placed in Legislative File (dead) on May 9
Introduced:
01/27/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Jonathan L. Kinney
Issue Brief:
Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary:
This bill expands eligibility for complimentary hunting, trapping and fishing licenses, including permits, stamps and other permissions necessary to hunt, trap and fish in Maine, to include nonresident disabled veterans who hold valid hunting or fishing licenses in the states in which they are residents.
Status:
In Senate. Committee Amendment A adopted on May 9
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Jeffrey K. Pierce
Issue Brief:
Sunday Hunting Restrictions
Summary:
This bill authorizes the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to allow hunting on Sunday and directs the commissioner to allow hunting on 5 Sundays for the respective hunting seasons for bear, moose, deer and wild turkey in coastal wildlife management areas on public land and private land of 5 acres or more with the landowner's permission.
Status:
In Senate. Placed in Legislative File (dead) on May 9
Introduced:
02/07/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Jonathan L. Kinney
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
This bill allows ice fishing on Baker Lake and Third, Fourth and Fifth St. John ponds in Somerset County.
Status:
Placed in Legislative File (dead) on May 4
Introduced:
02/07/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Jeffrey K. Pierce
Issue Brief:
Sunday Hunting Restrictions
Summary:
This bill allows Sunday hunting for migratory game birds.
Status:
From Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife: with divided report on May 9
Introduced:
02/10/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Roger E. Reed
Issue Brief:
Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary:
This bill guarantees a moose permit to resident applicants who are 65 years of age or older and have accumulated 30 points or more in the public chance drawing for moose permits.
Status:
Eligible for Governor's desk on May 9
Introduced:
02/10/2017
Sponsor: Representative Gary L. Hilliard, Member, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Public Access to Private Lands
Summary:
This bill prohibits destroying, tearing down, defacing or otherwise damaging property posting signs by hunters and provides for the one-year suspension of the hunting license of a person who is convicted of doing so.
Status:
Signed by Governor on May 5
Introduced:
02/10/2017
Sponsor: Representative Gary L. Hilliard, Member, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Specifies that hunters under 8 years of age may not hunt moose but may purchase applications for moose hunting permits in order to accrue points in the public chance drawing for moose permits.
Status:
In Senate. Engrossed as amended by Committee Amendment A on May 9
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:
Work Session held on May 4
Introduced:
02/24/2017
Sponsor: Representative Roland Danny Martin, Member, Maine 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:
In Senate. Placed in Legislative File (dead) on May 9
Introduced:
03/03/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Timothy S. Theriault
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
This bill requires the court to order the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to issue a permit to take a deer or moose to a person found not to have violated the inland fisheries and wildlife laws when a deer or moose taken by the person and seized by the department had been disposed of before that finding was made.
Status:
From Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife: with divided report on May 9
Introduced:
03/16/2017
Sponsor: Representative William R. Tuell, Member, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
White-tailed Deer Management - Hunting as a Preferred Management Tool
Summary:
This bill makes the penalty for hunting over bait during an open season on deer a mandatory fine of $500. It also provides for the one-year suspension of a hunting license of a person convicted of doing so.
Status:
From Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife: with divided report on May 9
Introduced:
03/22/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Karen A. Gerrish
Issue Brief:
Crossbows
Summary:
This bill expands crossbow hunting for deer into the regular archery-only season on deer. It removes the requirement that a person must have a valid hunting or archery hunting license or an apprenticeship hunter license or archery hunting license in order to hunt with a crossbow. It also lowers from 70 years of age to 65 years of age the age at which a person may hunt a wild bird or wild animal with a crossbow during any open season on that wild bird or wild animal, hunt in an expanded archery zone and hunt during muzzle-loading-only deer hunting season.
Status:
Work Session held on May 4
Introduced:
04/14/2017
Sponsor:
Representative MaryAnne Kinney
Issue Brief:
Guns (General)
Summary:
This bill provides that a person that prohibits the possession of firearms on property by an individual otherwise authorized to carry a firearm thereby assumes absolute custodial responsibility for the safety and defense of the individual prohibited from possessing a firearm while that individual is on that property and while that individual is on any property that individual is required to traverse in order to travel to and from the location where that individual's firearm is stored. An individual prohibited from possessing a firearm who is otherwise authorized to carry a firearm and who is injured, suffers bodily injury or death or incurs economic loss or expense, property damage or any other compensable loss as the result of conduct occurring on property on which the possession of a firearm is prohibited has a cause of action against the person that prohibits the possession of firearms on that property.
Status:
From Joint Committee on Criminal and Public Safety: Ought not to pass on May 8
Introduced:
05/03/2017
Sponsor: Representative Stephen J. Wood, Co-Chair, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
This bill: 1. Moves the planning functions of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife from the Division of Planning, which no longer exists, to the Bureau of Resource Management; 2. Allows a person to capture and possess reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates native to this State and not listed by the department as threatened, endangered or of special concern without a permit, within certain possession limits; 3. Clarifies the purpose for each type of captive wildlife permit issued by the department and the issuance of 3-day hold game bird propagation permits and one-year game bird propagation permits and establishes fees for those permits; 4. Clarifies that the provision of law regarding release of wildlife into the wild applies to birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates; 5. Eliminates the requirement to band imported pheasants; and 6. Gives the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife the authority to open a town or a designated geographical area to the taking of antlerless deer within a wildlife management district that does not allow the taking of antlerless deer.
Status:
Senate refers to Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in concurrence on May 4
Introduced:
02/08/2017
Sponsor: Senator Paul T. Davis, Member, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
White-tailedDeer Management - Hunting as a Preferred Management Tool
Summary:
Requires that at least 10% of antlerless deer permits issued in a wildlife management district be issued to eligible hunters who are 70 years of age and older.
Status:
House adopts Majority Committee Report: Ought not to pass on May 4
Introduced:
02/15/2017
Sponsor: Senator Thomas B. Saviello, Co-Chair, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
This bill allows a person who has lawfully killed a wild animal to sell the meat of the animal at a wild game dinner or to the organizer of a wild game dinner. The bill defines "wild game dinner" as a single event where meat from a lawfully taken animal is cooked and sold to persons at the event for immediate consumption.
Status:
From Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife: with divided report on May 9
Introduced:
03/20/2017
Sponsor: Senator Amy F. Volk, Member, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Exotic Invasive Species
Summary:
This bill restricts the rule-making authority of the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry regarding nonnative invasive terrestrial plants to allow the commissioner to adopt rules regarding those nonnative terrestrial plants that are determined to be invasive. The commissioner may not adopt rules to regulate plants that are likely or potentially invasive.
Status:
From Joint Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry: Ought not to pass on May 8
Introduced:
03/23/2017
Sponsor: Senator Thomas B. Saviello, Co-Chair, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
American System of Conservation Funding
Summary:
This bill creates the Maine Outdoor Programs and Activities Fund, administered by the Maine Outdoor Programs and Activities Fund Board, to carry out the mission of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The fund provides on a regional basis funding and grants to departmental and other outdoor programs and activities including funding for snowmobile and all-terrain vehicle trail improvements, fish and game organizations and youth outdoor activity programs. The Maine Outdoor Programs and Activities Fund is funded by adding $1 to a resident fishing license fee and $2 to a nonresident season fishing license fee for persons 16 years of age or older.
Status:
From Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife: Ought not to pass on May 4
Introduced:
05/03/2017
Sponsor: Senator Scott Cyrway, Member, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Airguns/ Airbows; Modern Restraining Animal Traps; Apprentice Hunting Licenses; Bear Hunting, Enforcement
Summary:
This bill makes several changes to the State's fish and wildlife enforcement laws. The bill: 1. Makes it legal for a person to use wireless, digital imaging technology as a means to comply with a trap tending requirement; 2. Makes it clear that hunting with thermal imaging equipment is illegal; 3. Creates a $20 penalty for each quart over the 2-quart limit on smelts; 4. Amends terminology in the law governing apprentice hunter license restrictions; 5. Makes it illegal to fraudulently obtain registrations in addition to licenses and permits that are provided by the department; 6. Makes failing to stop for a law enforcement officer while operating a snowmobile or watercraft a Class D crime consistent with the provision applying to all-terrain vehicles; 7. Makes the airbow a legal hunting implement when used within certain parameters. It defines "airbow," "crossbow" and "hand-held bow"; 8. Specifies that, in addition to a firearm, a person convicted of a domestic violence offense may not own, possess or have under that person's control a crossbow or muzzleloader or archery equipment; 9. Requires all edible meat from bear, deer or moose to be presented for registration along with evidence of gender. It allows these animals to be dismembered for ease of transportation; 10. Strengthens language within the prohibition of abuse of another person's property by removing reference to certain stated activities such as hunting, fishing or trapping to allow the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to enforce the law against persons who abuse another person's property but who may not be involved in an activity such as hunting, fishing or trapping; 11. Sets August 1st as the beginning date for bear baiting season; and 12. It replaces the requirement that a boat operator have a license from the department to carry passengers for hire with a requirement that the operator successfully complete a boating safety course provided by a national association of boating law administrators approved by the commissioner.
Status:
House refers to Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in concurrence
Introduced:
05/03/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Kimberley C. Rosen
Issue Brief:
Guns (General)
Summary:
This bill transfers the authority to issue nonconcealed firearm permits in certain cases from the Department of Public Safety to the Office of the Governor.
Status:
House refers to Joint Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety in concurrence on May 4
Introduced:
01/11/2017
Sponsor:
Delegate Meagan Simonaire
Issue Brief:
Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military, Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary:
Provides for complimentary hunting and fishing licenses to active military, former prisoners of war, recipients of the Purple Heart Award and disabled veterans; requires verification; requires the Department of Natural Resources to submit a certain report to the Governor and General Assembly.
Status: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Introduced:
01/11/2017
Sponsor: Delegate Ned Carey, Co-Chair, Maryland Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary:
Authorizes the Department of Natural Resources to issue a complimentary angler's license, Chesapeake Bay and coastal sport fishing license, or hunting license and any associated State-issued stamps or permits to a State resident who is a recipient of the Purple Heart award; makes certain stylistic changes; relates generally to complimentary hunting and fishing licenses for recipients of the Purple Heart award.
Status: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor:
Delegate Shane Robinson
Issue Brief:
Fishing Tournaments
Summary:
Requires the Department of Natural Resources to prepare a certain fishery management plan for the cownose ray species; requires the Department to prepare a certain fishery management plan for the cownose ray species on or before a certain date, subject to available funding; prohibits a person from sponsoring, conducting, or participating in a certain cownose ray fishing contest in state waters; establishes penalties for certain violations.
Status: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Introduced:
01/25/2017
Sponsor:
Montgomery County Delegation
Issue Brief:
Sunday Hunting Restrictions
Summary:
Authorizes the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on specified property during a specified time period on specified Sundays in Montgomery County, subject to specified provisions of law; establishes that the authority of the Department to allow deer hunting on specified Sundays does not apply in Montgomery County.
Status: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Introduced:
01/25/2017
Sponsor: Delegate Jay Jacobs, Member, Maryland Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Sunday Hunting Restrictions
Summary:
Establishes that the authority of the Department to allow deer hunting on certain Sundays does not apply in Kent County; authorizes the Department of Natural Resources to allow a person to hunt deer on private property on Sundays in Kent County subject to certain provisions of law and certain time restrictions.
Status: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Introduced:
01/25/2017
Sponsor:
Montgomery County Delegation
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Alters the size of the safety zone for archery hunters in Montgomery County within which archery hunting may not take place except under specified circumstances; requires archery hunters in Montgomery County to use a tree stand when hunting certain animals within a certain distance of certain buildings.
Status: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Introduced:
01/27/2017
Sponsor: Delegate Wendell Beitzel, Co-Chair, Maryland Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
American System of Conservation Funding
Summary:
Establishes the State Lakes Protection and Restoration Fund as a special, nonlapsing fund; specifies the purpose of the Fund is to protect and restore State-owned lakes; requires the Department of Natural Resources to develop a specified budget; requires any interest earning of the Fund be credited to the Fund.
Status: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Introduced:
02/03/2017
Sponsor:
Eastern Shore Delegation
Issue Brief:
White-tailed Deer Management - Hunting as a Preferred Management Tool, Sunday Hunting Restrictions
Summary:
Authorizes a person to hunt deer under a Deer Management Permit on any Sunday throughout the year, including all deer hunting seasons; alters the application of specified provisions of law governing Deer Management Permits in Charles County and St. Mary's County.
Status: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Introduced:
02/10/2017
Sponsor: Delegate Jay Jacobs, Member, Maryland Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Requires the Department of Natural Resources to adopt regulations that authorizes a tidal fish licensee authorized to catch crabs using all legal gear to work one additional early hour on certain days.
Status: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Maryland H 1427
Introduced:
02/10/2017
Sponsor: Delegate Herb McMillan
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: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Introduced:
01/11/2017
Sponsor: Senator Bryan Simonaire, Member Maryland Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military, Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary:
Authorizes the Department of Natural Resources to issue certain complimentary fishing licenses to an out-of-state person who certifies that the person is a former prisoner of war or a 100% service connected disabled American veteran if the person's state of residence extends similar privileges to former prisoners of war or 100% service connected disabled American veterans of this state; alters a certain exemption from the requirement to obtain a trout stamp.
Status: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Introduced:
01/11/2017
Sponsor: Senator Steve Waugh, Member, Maryland Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Requires the Department of Natural Resources to adopt regulations that authorize a tidal fish licensee authorized to catch crabs using all legal gear to work additional early hours on certain days.
Status: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Introduced:
01/11/2017
Sponsor: Senator Bryan Simonaire, Member Maryland Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Hunter Education
Summary:
Relates to hunter safety courses; relates to application of requirement; requires a certain person to make an affidavit that the person hunted before a certain date rather than that the person had a certain hunting license; establishes a program to provide incentives for the successful completion of a hunter safety course by an individual who is not required by law to complete a hunter safety course.
Status: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Ronald Young
Issue Brief:
Fishing Tournaments
Summary:
Requires the Department of Natural Resources to prepare a certain fishery management plan for the cownose ray species; prohibits a person from organizing, sponsoring, promoting, conducting, or participating in a certain cownose ray fishing tournament in state waters until a certain date; makes this act an emergency measure.
Status: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Introduced:
02/01/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Ronald Young
Issue Brief:
Licenses (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: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Introduced:
02/02/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Brian Feldman
Issue Brief:
Substandard Kennels
Summary:
Alters the conditions under which a person is required to obtain a kennel license from a local licensing agency.
Status: Signed by Governor Larry Hogan, Member, Governors Sportsmen's Caucus on May 4
Introduced:
05/08/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Brian Stack
Issue Brief:
Guns (General)
Summary:
Increases fee for firearms purchaser identification card; requires color photo on firearms purchaser identification cards permits to purchase handgun, and permits to carry handgun.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Law and Public Safety on May 8
Introduced:
01/09/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member Aileen M. Gunther, Co-Chair, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Licenses (General)
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; directs the commissioner of environmental conservation to promulgate rules and regulations establishing gift cards for hunting and fishing licenses in New York State.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Ways and Means on May 9
Introduced:
05/05/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member Addie Jenne, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Off Highway Vehicles (OHV)
Summary:
Amends the definition of all-terrain vehicles to include certain vehicles of up to seventy inches long and 1500 pounds which consist of a side-by-side passenger configuration and which include certain safety features; regulates the operation of all terrain vehicles by the general public in the state forest preserve, Long Island central pine barrens area and Albany pine bush preserve.
Status:
Amended in Assembly Committee on Transportation on May 5
Introduced:
01/12/2017
Sponsor:
Assembly Member Steve Englebright
Issue Brief:
Technology and the Fair Chase Ethic
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; prohibits the hunting or taking of wildlife with the aid of an unmanned aerial vehicle.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Codes on May 9
Introduced:
01/12/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member Kenneth Zebrowski, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; decreases the amount of alcohol in a person's system necessary to be considered to be intoxicated while hunting.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Codes on May 9
Introduced:
02/03/2017
Sponsor:
Assembly Member Steve Englebright
Issue Brief:
Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; requires the department to review Laws and policies pertaining to free or reduced cost hunting and fishing licenses.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Ways and Means on May 9
Introduced:
02/14/2017
Sponsor:
Assembly Member Dan Quart
Issue Brief:
Knife Ban Repeal
Summary:
Amends the Penal Law; relates to the definition of a gravity knife.
Status:
Passed Assembly. To Senate Committee on Codes on May 10
Introduced:
05/02/2017
Sponsor:
Assembly Member Steve Englebright
Issue Brief:
Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary:
Relates to residency requirements for free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses; removes certain residency requirements for members of certain tribes and of the armed forces and organized militia.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Ways and Means on May 9
Introduced:
05/03/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member William Magee, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Licenses (General)
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; relates to the definition of non-ambulatory for purposes of non-ambulatory hunting permits.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation on May 3
Introduced:
05/03/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member Aileen M. Gunther, Co-Chair, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary:
Amends the Tax Law; creates a tax credit for instructors of a hunting safety course up to a specified amount.
Status:
To Assembly Committee on Ways and Means on May 3
Introduced:
01/04/2017
Sponsor: Senator Joseph E. Robach, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Enforcement
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; relates to the illegal taking of deer.
Status:
From Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on May 9
Introduced:
01/04/2017
Sponsor: Senator Robert Ortt, 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; requires the department to review Laws and policies pertaining to free or reduced cost hunting and fishing licenses.
Status:
From Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on May 9
Introduced:
01/05/2017
Sponsor: Senator Catharine Young, 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 free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses to residents of the state who are active duty members of the U.S. armed Forces regardless of where such person is stationed.
Status:
Passed Senate. To Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation on May 10
Introduced:
01/06/2017
Sponsor: Senator Robert Ortt, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Right to Hunt, Fish, and Harvest Wildlife
Summary:
Relates to the right to hunt, trap and fish; provides for regulation by the state.
Status:
From Senate Committee on Judiciary on May 9
Introduced:
01/09/2017
Sponsor: Senator Patrick M. Gallivan, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Crossbows
Summary:
Amends the environmental conservation law, in relation to crossbows; repeals certain provisions of such law relating thereto.
Status:
From Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on May 9
Introduced:
01/17/2017
Sponsor: Senator Tom O'Mara, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Hunting, Angling & Nature Appreciation in Schools
Summary:
Relates to hunting, fishing and outdoor education in high school physical education courses.
Status:
From Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on May 9
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:
From Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on May 9
Introduced:
01/19/2017
Sponsor: Senator Michael H. Ranzenhofer, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Licenses (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:
From Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on May 9
Introduced:
03/02/2017
Sponsor: Senator Robert Ortt, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; authorizes hunting of big game with rifles in the county of Orleans.
Status:
From Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on May 9
Introduced:
04/04/2017
Sponsor: Senator George Amedore, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Makes permanent the provisions of law authorizing the hunting of big game in the county of Schenectady with pistols, rifles, shotguns, crossbows and long bows.
Status:
From Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on May 9
Introduced:
05/05/2017
Sponsor: Senator Tom O'Mara, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; relates to licensing of guides and outfitters.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on May 5
Introduced:
05/09/2017
Sponsor: Senator David Valesky, Co-Chair, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
State Fish and Wildlife Management Authority
Summary:
Amends the Environmental Conservation Law; relates to wildlife management by the department of environmental conservation in municipalities.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Environmental Conservation on May 9
Introduced:
02/23/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Barry Jozwiak
Issue Brief:
Hunting with Dogs
Summary:
Amends Game of the Consolidated Statutes; relates to in hunting and furtaking; provides for the offense of dogs pursuing, injuring or killing big game.
Status:
Passed House unanimously (196-0). To Senate on May 10
Introduced:
01/11/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Gregg Amore
Issue Brief:
Guns (General)
Summary:
Prohibits any person convicted of a misdemeanor offense under Section 12-29-2 (a crime involving domestic violence) from purchasing, owning, transporting, carrying, or possessing any firearm; provides that people who have had their convictions expunged, set aside, or who have had their civil rights restored would not be considered a prohibited person under this chapter.
Status:
Committee postponed at request of Sponsor (05/09/2017) on May 5
Introduced:
02/15/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Theresa Ann Tanzi
Issue Brief:
Guns (General)
Summary:
Limits access to firearms when an individual is under certain types of domestic restraining orders or protective orders issued or renewed on or after a specified date.
Status:
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/09/2017) on May 5
Introduced:
02/02/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Paul W. Fogarty
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Would require DEM to issue regulations requiring any dock or pier longer than twenty feet (20') and located on a freshwater lake or pond to be equipped with reflective material such that it can be seen by watercraft operators. This act would take effect upon passage.
Status:
Placed on Senate Calendar (05/11/2017) on May 9
Introduced:
02/02/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Paul W. Fogarty
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Would provide for the creation of a new position in the fish and wildlife division of the department of environmental management, and would place oversight of freshwater lakes, streams, and ponds, in the fish and wildlife division. This act would take effect upon passage.
Status:
Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (05/10/2017) on May 5
Introduced:
02/02/2017
Sponsor: Representative Butch Shaw, Member, Vermont Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Seniors, Veterans, and Active Duty Military Hunting and Angling Privileges
Summary:
Relates to permanent licenses for a senior citizens; relates to fees.
Status:
Eligible for Governor's desk on May 4
Introduced:
02/09/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Amy Sheldon
Issue Brief:
Forest Management
Summary:
Relates to protecting working forests and habitat.
Status:
To Senate Committee on Rules on May 10
Introduced:
03/23/2017
Sponsor: Senator John Rodgers, Co-Chair, Vermont Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Exotic Invasive Species
Summary:
Relates to aquatic nuisance species control; prohibits prohibit the transport of additional aquatic plants and aquatic nuisance species to or from waters of the State; requires visual inspection of vehicles, vessels, personal watercraft, seaplanes, trailers, and other equipment for aquatic plants and aquatic nuisance species when leaving a water of the State; requires a boat or personal watercraft to be cleaned in a boat wash prior to launching in a lake or pond if a public boat wash facility.
Status:
Eligible for Governor's desk on May 5
