Plain English Breakdown
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Hunting Tag Transfer for Youth and Disabled Veterans
This law creates programs allowing hunters to transfer big game tags to their children or grandchildren, or donate them through organizations to youth with serious health issues or disabled veterans.
What This Bill Does
- Requires the Fish and Game Commission to create a program letting people transfer hunting tags for specific animals to their child or grandchild under certain conditions.
- Creates a second program where an organization can request to move a tag from a donor to a youth with a life-threatening illness, permanent physical disability, or a disabled veteran.
- Requires the Department of Fish and Wildlife to collect fees to cover costs for these programs.
- Requires money collected from those fees to go into the Big Game Management Account.
- Orders the department to send a report about the donation program to legislative committees by January 1, 2032.
Who It Names or Affects
- Hunters who hold tags for antelope, elk, deer, bears, or bighorn rams.
- Children and grandchildren of tag holders.
- Youth with life-threatening illnesses or permanent physical disabilities.
- Disabled veterans.
Terms To Know
- Hunting Tag
- A permit required in addition to a hunting license that allows a person to hunt specific animals like deer, elk, or bears.
- Big Game Management Account
- The state fund where money from tag fees is stored for wildlife management purposes.
Limits and Unknowns
- These new rules will end on January 1, 2033.
- The text does not list the specific conditions required to transfer a tag within families or through organizations.
- The exact amount of fees that may be charged is not stated.