Bill Text: IL SB1942 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that a person may use a crossbow if the user is 55 and older (instead of 62 and older). Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1942 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB1942-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 SB1942 Introduced 2/15/2013, by Sen. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
520 ILCS 5/2.5
Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that a person may use a crossbow if the user is 55 and older (instead of 62 and older). 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 person may use a crossbow
if one or more of the following conditions are met:
(1) the user is a person age 55 62 and older;
(2) the user is a handicapped person 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.
As used in this Section, "handicapped person" means a
person who has a physical impairment due to injury or disease,
congenital or acquired, which renders them 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 handicapped as defined
above.

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(Source: P.A. 97-907, eff. 8-7-12.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.