Bills › 90th General Assembly
Relating to deer hunting licenses available to nonresident hunters
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2023
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 12, 2023
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, 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 Nonresident hunters would be able to buy up to 7,500 licenses for hunting deer with antlers. The state will use a drawing system to give these licenses to people who have the most preference points. If a nonresident hunts an antlerless deer in certain areas, they will earn a preference point to help them in future drawings.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to deer hunting licenses available to nonresident hunters. Currently, the natural resource commission (NRC) issues up to 6,000 antlered or any sex deer hunting licenses to nonresidents. The bill increases that amount to 7,500. The bill requires NRC to use a random draw process that is weighted to favor applicants with the most preference points to assign nonresident antlered or any sex deer hunting licenses until all available nonresident antlered or any sex deer hunting licenses have been issued. The bill provides that when a nonresident uses the antlerless deer only deer hunting license and tag that the nonresident is required to purchase with an antlered or any sex deer hunting license to take an antlerless deer in a zone that is above the population goal determined by NRC, then NRC will assign one preference point to the nonresident. The department of natural resources shall determine a method for verifying a harvest in a zone that is above the population goal.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 23, 2023. On January 24, 2023 it recommended passage. [].
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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- SF 2142 Relating to deer hunting licenses available to nonresident hunters89th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 2344 · same titleCleared committee
- SF 2344 Relating to deer hunting licenses available to nonresident hunters89th General Assembly · Approved by committee · very similarCleared committee
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