Bill Text: NH SB389 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to extending trout season for catch and release to December 31.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-21 - Refer to Interim Study, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 02/21/2024; Senate Journal 5 [SB389 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2024-SB389-Introduced.html

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SB 389  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

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12/10

 

SENATE BILL 389

 

AN ACT relative to extending trout season for catch and release to December 31.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Bradley, Dist 3

 

COMMITTEE: Energy and Natural Resources

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill extends the catch and release season for trout until December 31.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2979

12/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to extending trout season for catch and release to December 31.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Paragraph; Catch and Release Season for Trout.  Amend RSA 206:10 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:

II-a.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in all rivers and streams, wild trout streams, trout ponds, wild trout ponds, lake trout and/or salmon waters where trout fishing is designated as catch and release only, the catch and release season for all species trout fishing on these waters shall not close until December 31.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.