Bill Amendment: IL HB3399 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: CROSSBOW HUNTING-COYOTES

Status: 2017-09-22 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0524 [HB3399 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB3399-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Joe Sosnowski

Filed: 2/23/2017

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3399
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3399 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by changing
Section 2.5 as follows:
(520 ILCS 5/2.5)
Sec. 2.5. Crossbow conditions.
(a) A person may use a crossbow if one or more of the
following conditions are met:
(1) the user is a person age 62 and older;
(2) the user is a person with a disability to whom the
Director has issued a permit to use a crossbow, as provided
by administrative rule; or
(3) the date of using the crossbow is during the period
of the second Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday
through the last day of the archery deer hunting season

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(both inclusive) set annually by the Director.
(b) As used in this Section, "person with a disability"
means a person who has a physical impairment due to injury or
disease, congenital or acquired, which renders the person so
severely disabled as to be unable to use a longbow, recurve
bow, or compound bow. Permits must be issued only after the
receipt of a physician's statement confirming the applicant is
a person with a disability as defined above.
(c) A person may use a crossbow to take coyotes when it is
legal to use a bow and arrow to take coyotes.
(Source: P.A. 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)".