Bill Text: PA HB202 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for recreational hunting on commission-owned lands.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-02 - Referred to GAME AND FISHERIES [HB202 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB202-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 201
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 202 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY GODSHALL, BENNINGHOFF, PHILLIPS, BEYER, EVERETT, HARHAI, KORTZ, METCALFE, MOUL AND PYLE, FEBRUARY 2, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, FEBRUARY 2, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, further providing for recreational hunting on
commission-owned lands.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 722 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
§ 722. Use of property.
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(d) Recreational hunting.--
(1) Subject to valid existing rights, commission-owned
lands shall be open to access and use for recreational
hunting except as limited by the commission for reasons of
public safety, fish or wildlife management, or homeland
security or as otherwise limited by law.
(2) The commission shall exercise its authority,
consistent with paragraph (1), in a manner to support,
promote and enhance recreational hunting opportunities, to
the extent authorized by State law.
(3) Commission land management decisions and actions may
not, to the greatest practical extent, result in any net loss
of habitat available for hunting opportunities on commission-
owned lands that exists on the effective date of this
subsection.
(4) By October 1 of each year, the executive director of
the commission shall submit to the General Assembly a written
report describing:
(i) the acreage owned by the commission that has
been closed during the previous year to recreational
hunting and the reasons for the closures; and
(ii) the acreage owned by the commission that, in
order to comply with paragraph (3), was opened to
recreational hunting to compensate for the acreage closed
under subparagraph (i).
Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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