Bill Text: IL SB1467 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that any person may use a crossbow to take any animal during the appropriate archery season. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB1467 Detail]

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB1467 Introduced 2/9/2017, by Sen. Neil Anderson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
520 ILCS 5/2.5
Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that any person may use a crossbow to take any animal during the appropriate archery season. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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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 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
(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

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a person with a disability as defined above.
(c) Any person may use a crossbow to take any animal during
the appropriate archery season.
(Source: P.A. 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.