Bill Text: WV HB4522 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to rules for hunting antlered deer
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-10 - To House Agriculture and Natural Resources [HB4522 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB4522-Introduced.html
FISCAL NOTE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 4522
By Delegate Hott
[Introduced January 10, 2024; Referred to
the Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources then Government Organization]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §20-2-39, relating to rules for hunting antlered deer.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 2. WILDLIFE RESOURCES.
§20-2-39. Rules for hunting antlered deer.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the director shall propose rules for legislative approval, in accordance with §29A-3-1 et seq., of this code, governing the hunting of antlered deer. The rules shall provide that: (1) The first antlered deer may be harvested by a licensee by any method under existing rules; (2) the second antlered deer harvested by a licensee, regardless of how harvested, shall have three scorable points on one side; (3) no antlered deer may be harvested by a licensee after harvesting the first two.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the Director of the Division of Natural Resources to propose rules for hunting antlered deer.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.