Bill Text: IL HB4254 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that a veteran who is at least 10% disabled with service-related disabilities or who is in receipt of a total disability pension is not required to procure a trapping license in order to trap any of the permitted species identified in the Code during such times and with such devices and by such methods as permitted by the Code. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-05 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Darren Bailey [HB4254 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4254-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB4254 Introduced , by Rep. Nathan D. Reitz SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
520 ILCS 5/3.4c new
Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that a veteran who is at least 10% disabled with service-related disabilities or who is in receipt of a total disability pension is not required to procure a trapping license in order to trap any of the permitted species identified in the Code during such times and with such devices and by such methods as permitted by the Code. Effective immediately.
LRB101 17698 CMG 67125 b
A BILL FOR
HB4254 LRB101 17698 CMG 67125 b
AN ACT concerning wildlife.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by adding Section
3.4c as follows:
(520 ILCS 5/3.4c new)
Sec. 3.4c. Veterans who, according to the determination of
the Veterans' Administration as certified by the Department of
Veterans' Affairs, are at least 10% disabled with
service-related disabilities or in receipt of total disability
pensions may trap any of the species protected by Section 2.2,
during such times, with such devices and by such methods as are
permitted by this Act, without procuring trapping licenses, on
the condition that their respective disabilities do not prevent
them from trapping in a manner which is safe to themselves and
others.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.