Relating to hunting deer by persons with bow season licenses

Sponsored by the House Natural Resources Committee

Topics:Environment & natural resources

Same legislation: HSB 651

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Where it is now

Done: IntroducedFebruary 2, 2022
Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 2, 2022
Done: House committeeFebruary 9, 2022
Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
Next: Senate committee
Next: Passes the Senate
Next: To the Governor
Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary If you buy a bow hunting license but don't catch a deer, you can use that same license during the late muzzleloader season or the January antlerless deer season. This change also allows people to use a crossbow when hunting during that January antlerless deer season.¹

Read the official explanation

Pursuant to current rules, the natural resource commission (NRC) may establish an antlerless deer only deer hunting season from January through the second Sunday after that date if there are at least 100 unsold antlerless deer only deer hunting licenses in the county on the third Monday in December preceding the season. This bill allows a person who was unsuccessful in taking a deer during a bow season established by NRC by rule while using a bow season deer hunting license to use the license and unfilled tag during the late muzzleloader season or the January antlerless deer hunting season that follows the bow season for which the license and tag were valid. A person hunting pursuant to the bill is authorized to hunt using a crossbow during the January antlerless deer hunting season.

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House subcommittee

Named February 2, 2022 (as HSB 651). On February 9, 2022 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 2-0.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§483A.8

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Lobbying

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HSB 651Renumbered

89th General Assembly

HF 2365Cleared committeefrom HSB 651

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SF 175Renumbered90th GA

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SF 175 Relating to hunting deer by persons with bow season licenses
90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 208
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