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Relating to taking certain animals that are deemed a nuisance
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 25, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 25, 2023
- Done: House committeeFebruary 14, 2023
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 317
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became HF 317 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 317 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary People who live on or work with farmland can now kill or capture certain animals like coyotes, raccoons, skunks, or groundhogs if they consider them a nuisance. They would no longer need to get permission from the state first to protect their property or animals. Anyone who takes these animals must either get rid of them on the property or give them to the natural resource commission.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to the taking of fur-bearing animals without prior permission of the natural resource commission (NRC). Under current law, a person may kill, trap, or ensnare a fur-bearing animal outside of the open season if the killing, trapping, or ensnaring is for the protection of a person or public or private property and with the prior permission of a duly appointed representative of NRC. A person may take a fur-bearing animal without receiving prior permission if prior permission is impractical or impossible to obtain and the fur-bearing animal represents a threat to a person, domestic animal, or private property. Under the bill, an owner or tenant of agricultural property or an associated residence, or an agent of the owner or tenant, may take, capture, kill, or temporarily possess, for the purpose of destroying or disposing of, a coyote, raccoon, opossum, skunk, or groundhog without receiving prior permission if the owner, tenant, or agent deems the animal to be a nuisance.87 shall be disposed of onsite or shall be relinquished to a representative of the commission.
Changed since by amendments S-3132, H-1027; see Amendments.
House subcommittee
Named January 25, 2023. On February 2, 2023 it recommended amendment and passage. Vote Total: 2-1.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
1 written public comment to its subcommittee: February 20, 2023 (1) · on the Legislature’s site
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- HF 2057 Relating to taking fur-bearing animals without prior permission of the natural resource co…89th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 2369 · similarCleared committee
Matched by wording or an identical title.