Bill Text: IA HF644 | 2011-2012 | 84th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act requiring issuance of hunter safety and ethics education certificates to residents who are peace officers, active duty military personnel, or honorably discharged veterans. (Formerly HF 446)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-31 - END OF 2011 ACTIONS [HF644 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2011-HF644-Introduced.html
House File 644 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 644 BY COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES (SUCCESSOR TO HF 446) A BILL FOR An Act requiring issuance of hunter safety and ethics education 1 certificates to residents who are peace officers, active 2 duty military personnel, or honorably discharged veterans. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 2582HV (1) 84 av/sc
H.F. 644 Section 1. Section 483A.27, subsection 5, Code 2011, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 5. An officer of the department or a certified instructor 3 may issue a certificate to a person who has not completed 4 the hunter safety and ethics education course but meets 5 the criteria established by the commission. However, the 6 department shall issue a certificate to a resident who is a 7 peace officer, a person who is on active duty with the armed 8 forces of the United States, or a United States military 9 veteran discharged under honorable conditions who requests 10 the certificate within one year after the date of discharge. 11 For purposes of this subsection, “peace officer” means those 12 officers designated under section 801.4, subsection 11, 13 paragraphs “a” , “b” , “c” , “f” , “g” , and “h” . 14 Sec. 2. ADDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY. Notwithstanding the 15 requirements contained in section 1 of this Act, a resident 16 who was discharged from United States military service under 17 honorable conditions before July 1, 2011, shall be issued a 18 hunter safety and ethics certificate as provided in section 19 1 of this Act if the certificate is requested before July 1, 20 2012. 21 EXPLANATION 22 This bill provides that the department of natural resources 23 shall issue a hunter safety and ethics certificate to residents 24 who are peace officers, on active duty with the armed forces of 25 the United States, or are honorably discharged United States 26 military veterans who request the certificate within one year 27 after the date of discharge. Military veterans who were 28 discharged prior to the effective date of the bill on July 1, 29 2011, also have a year to request the certificate. 30 For purposes of the bill, peace officers include sheriffs 31 and their deputies, marshals and police officers of cities, 32 peace officer members of the department of public safety, 33 special security officers employed by the board of regents, 34 certain conservation officers, and certain employees of the 35 -1- LSB 2582HV (1) 84 av/sc 1/ 2
H.F. 644 department of transportation. 1 -2- LSB 2582HV (1) 84 av/sc 2/ 2
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