Bills › 91st General Assembly
Relating to the allocation of nonresident deer hunting licenses
Sponsored by the House Natural Resources Committee, Rep. Taylor R. Collins (R)
Topics:Environment & natural resources
Same legislation: HF 22
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 21, 2025
- Done: House committeeFebruary 11, 2025
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, 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 Currently, nonresident deer hunting licenses are given to people based on how many preference points they have. This new law would change that by using a random drawing for a portion of the available licenses, regardless of an applicant's points. Once a person wins a license through either method, their preference points are removed.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to nonresident deer hunting licenses issued by the natural resource commission (NRC). Currently, NRC authorizes the issuance of up to 6,000 antlered or any sex deer hunting licenses to nonresidents. Licenses are awarded based on the results of drawing from applicant pools. The first nonresident antlered or any sex deer hunting license drawing is made from the pool of applicants with the most preference points and continues to pools of applicants with successively fewer preference points until all the available licenses have been issued. The bill retains this method of license distribution, but only until percent of the available nonresident antlered or any sex deer hunting licenses have been issued. The bill requires the remaining percent of the nonresident antlered or any sex deer hunting licenses to be distributed through a random drawing of all the applications without considering the preference points of the applicant. Regardless of the drawing method, once a nonresident applicant receives a license, all of the applicant’s preference points are removed.
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91st General Assembly
Tried before
This idea has been filed in 2 earlier General Assemblies. None got through a chamber.
- HF 60 Relating to the allocation of nonresident deer hunting licenses, and making penalties appl…89th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 806 · similarCleared committee
- HF 2014 Relating to the allocation of nonresident deer hunting licenses, and making penalties appl…88th General Assembly · Approved by committee · similarCleared committee
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