Establish an annual mountain lion hunting season with no area limits, mortality caps, or bag restrictions, allowing hunting any hour of day.
AN ACT relating to game and fish; requiring an annual mountain lion hunting season; prohibiting hunt areas, hunt area mortality limits, statewide mortality limits, bag limits and hours for taking mountain lions for mountain lion hunting seasons; specifying that a mountain lion may be taken during any hour of the day; requiring the game and fish commission to establish possession tags for mountain lions as specified; authorizing mountain lions to be trapped or snared; authorizing persons with other specified licenses to take mountain lions; repealing mountain lion pursuit seasons; providing definitions; making conforming amendments; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.
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Co-sponsors: Representative(s) Allemand, Haroldson, Webber, Wharff, Winter, Senator(s) Driskill
Establishes an annual mountain lion hunting season without area-based quotas, bag limits, or time-of-day restrictions, and allows mountain lions to be taken with traps and snares.
Effective: July 1, 2025
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3/3/2025(House)
H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4
2/7/2025(House)
H No report prior to CoW Cutoff
1/28/2025(House)
H Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel
1/27/2025(House)
H Received for Introduction
1/25/2025(LSO)
Bill Number Assigned
No roll call votes recorded.