Bill Text: IL SB3230 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that owners of land and their children, parents, brothers, and sisters shall have the right to hunt upon their lands without procuring a State Habitat Stamp, but the hunting shall be done only during periods of time and with devices and by methods as are permitted by the Code. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3230 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB3230-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB3230 Introduced 2/10/2020, by Sen. Dale Fowler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
520 ILCS 5/3.1 from Ch. 61, par. 3.1
Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that owners of land and their children, parents, brothers, and sisters shall have the right to hunt upon their lands without procuring a State Habitat Stamp, but the hunting shall be done only during periods of time and with devices and by methods as are permitted by the Code. Effective immediately.
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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
3.1 as follows:
(520 ILCS 5/3.1) (from Ch. 61, par. 3.1)
Sec. 3.1. License and stamps required.
(a) Before any person shall take or attempt to take any of
the species protected by Section 2.2 for which an open season
is established under this Act, he shall first have procured and
possess a valid hunting license, except as provided in Section
3.1-5 of this Code.
Before any person 18 years of age or older shall take or
attempt to take any bird of the species defined as migratory
waterfowl by Section 2.2, including coots, he shall first have
procured a State Migratory Waterfowl Stamp.
Before any person 18 years of age or older takes, attempts
to take, or pursues any species of wildlife protected by this
Code, except migratory waterfowl, coots, and hand-reared birds
on licensed game breeding and hunting preserve areas and state
controlled pheasant hunting areas, he or she shall first obtain
a State Habitat Stamp. Veterans with disabilities and former
prisoners of war shall not be required to obtain State Habitat

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Stamps. Any person who obtained a lifetime license before
January 1, 1993, shall not be required to obtain State Habitat
Stamps. Income from the sale of State Furbearer Stamps and
State Pheasant Stamps received after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1992 shall be deposited into the State
Furbearer Fund and State Pheasant Fund, respectively.
Before any person 18 years of age or older shall take,
attempt to take, or sell the green hide of any mammal of the
species defined as fur-bearing mammals by Section 2.2 for which
an open season is established under this Act, he shall first
have procured a State Habitat Stamp.
(b) Before any person who is a non-resident of the State of
Illinois shall take or attempt to take any of the species
protected by Section 2.2 for which an open season is
established under this Act, he shall, unless specifically
exempted by law, first procure a non-resident license as
provided by this Act for the taking of any wild game.
Before a nonresident shall take or attempt to take
white-tailed deer, he shall first have procured a Deer Hunting
Permit as defined in Section 2.26 of this Code.
Before a nonresident shall take or attempt to take wild
turkeys, he shall have procured a Wild Turkey Hunting Permit as
defined in Section 2.11 of this Code.
(c) The owners residing on, or bona fide tenants of, farm
lands and their children, parents, brothers, and sisters
actually permanently residing on their lands shall have the

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right to hunt any of the species protected by Section 2.2 upon
their lands and waters without procuring hunting licenses; but
the hunting shall be done only during periods of time and with
devices and by methods as are permitted by this Act. Any person
on active duty with the Armed Forces of the United States who
is now and who was at the time of entering the Armed Forces a
resident of Illinois and who entered the Armed Forces from this
State, and who is presently on ordinary or emergency leave from
the Armed Forces, and any resident of Illinois who has a
disability may hunt any of the species protected by Section 2.2
without procuring a hunting license, but the hunting shall be
done only during such periods of time and with devices and by
methods as are permitted by this Act. For the purpose of this
Section a person is a person with a disability when that person
has a Type 1 or Type 4, Class 2 disability as defined in
Section 4A of the Illinois Identification Card Act. For
purposes of this Section, an Illinois Person with a Disability
Identification Card issued pursuant to the Illinois
Identification Card Act indicating that the person named has a
Type 1 or Type 4, Class 2 disability shall be adequate
documentation of the disability.
Owners of land and their children, parents, brothers, and
sisters shall have the right to hunt upon their lands without
procuring a State Habitat Stamp, but the hunting shall be done
only during periods of time and with devices and by methods as
are permitted by this Act.

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(d) A courtesy non-resident license, permit, or stamp for
taking game may be issued at the discretion of the Director,
without fee, to any person officially employed in the game and
fish or conservation department of another state or of the
United States who is within the State to assist or consult or
cooperate with the Director; or to the officials of other
states, the United States, foreign countries, or officers or
representatives of conservation organizations or publications
while in the State as guests of the Governor or Director. The
Director may provide to nonresident participants and official
gunners at field trials an exemption from licensure while
participating in a field trial.
(e) State Migratory Waterfowl Stamps shall be required for
those persons qualifying under subsections (c) and (d) who
intend to hunt migratory waterfowl, including coots, to the
extent that hunting licenses of the various types are
authorized and required by this Section for those persons.
(f) Registration in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Migratory
Bird Harvest Information Program shall be required for those
persons who are required to have a hunting license before
taking or attempting to take any bird of the species defined as
migratory game birds by Section 2.2, except that this
subsection shall not apply to crows in this State or
hand-reared birds on licensed game breeding and hunting
preserve areas, for which an open season is established by this
Act. Persons registering with the Program must carry proof of

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registration with them while migratory bird hunting.
The Department shall publish suitable prescribed
regulations pertaining to registration by the migratory bird
hunter in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Migratory Bird
Harvest Information Program.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 100-638, eff. 1-1-19.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.