Bill Text: IA SF47 | 2019-2020 | 88th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to youth deer and youth wild turkey hunting licenses. (See SF 202; SF 610.)

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-06 - Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 202. S.J. 249. [SF47 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2019-SF47-Introduced.html
Senate File 47 - Introduced SENATE FILE 47 BY CHAPMAN A BILL FOR An Act relating to youth deer and youth wild turkey hunting 1 licenses. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 1118XS (3) 88 js/rn
S.F. 47 Section 1. NEW SECTION . 483A.8D Youth deer and youth wild 1 turkey hunting licenses —— cost —— season length. 2 1. The cost for a youth deer hunting license shall be no 3 more than fifty percent of the cost of a resident deer hunting 4 license, as provided in rules adopted pursuant to section 5 483A.1. The cost for a youth wild turkey hunting license shall 6 be no more than fifty percent of the cost of a resident wild 7 turkey hunting license, as provided in rules adopted pursuant 8 to section 483A.1. 9 2. The department shall make available for purchase youth 10 deer hunting licenses and youth wild turkey hunting licenses 11 during the entire calendar year. 12 3. Youth wild turkey hunting season shall last for nine 13 days, including two full weekends. The department may reduce 14 the length of the youth wild turkey hunting season only after 15 it submits to the public a report stating the biological reason 16 such a reduction is necessary and only after it eliminates all 17 other wild turkey hunting seasons. 18 EXPLANATION 19 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 20 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 21 The department of natural resources currently regulates 22 the cost and availability of youth deer and youth wild turkey 23 hunting licenses and the length of the youth wild turkey 24 hunting season by rule. This bill prohibits the department 25 from establishing a cost on a youth deer or youth wild turkey 26 hunting license that is higher than 50 percent of a resident 27 deer or resident wild turkey hunting license, respectively. 28 The bill also requires the department to sell youth deer and 29 youth wild turkey hunting licenses during the entire calendar 30 year. Last, the bill sets the season length for the youth wild 31 turkey hunting season at nine days. The department may shorten 32 the season only after it submits to the public a report in 33 which it explains the biological reason why reducing the length 34 of the season is necessary and only after it eliminates all 35 -1- LSB 1118XS (3) 88 js/rn 1/ 2
S.F. 47 other wild turkey hunting seasons. 1 -2- LSB 1118XS (3) 88 js/rn 2/ 2
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