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LD1403 • 2025

An Act to Expand the Hunter Safety Course Exemption for Certain Individuals with Firearm Training

An Act to Expand the Hunter Safety Course Exemption for Certain Individuals with Firearm Training

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Sponsor
Representative Dean Cray
Last action
2025-04-24
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Expand the Hunter Safety Course Exemption for Certain Individuals with Firearm Training

An Act to Expand the Hunter Safety Course Exemption for Certain Individuals with Firearm Training Sponsor: Representative Dean Cray Reference committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Expand the Hunter Safety Course Exemption for Certain Individuals with Firearm Training Sponsor: Representative Dean Cray Reference committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

  1. 2025-04-24 Senate

    Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  2. 2025-04-23 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP

  3. 2025-04-07 Committee

    Work Session Held

  4. 2025-04-07 Committee

    Voted; ONTP

  5. 2025-04-01 House

    Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife suggested and ordered printed. The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on INLAND FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  6. 2025-04-01 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Expand the Hunter Safety Course Exemption for Certain Individuals with Firearm Training
Sponsor:
Representative Dean Cray
Reference committee:
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1403
H.P. 925 House of Representatives, April 1, 2025
An Act to Expand the Hunter Safety Course Exemption for Certain
Individuals with Firearm Training
Reference to the Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife suggested and ordered
printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative CRAY of Palmyra. (BY REQUEST)

Page 1 - 132LR1562(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §11105, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2013, c. 139, §1, is amended
3 to read:
42. Hunter safety course exemption for certain members of armed forces domiciled
5in State individuals with required firearm training. A member of the Armed Forces of
6 the United States on active duty who is permanently stationed outside of the United States
7 and home on leave , a veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States, a law enforcement
8 officer and any individual who has completed a firearm training course as a requirement of
9 the individual's employment is exempt from hunter safety course requirements under
10 subsection 1 if that member individual shows proof at the time of application for the license
11 that that member's home state of record, as recorded in that person's military service
12 records, is Maine individual has completed a firearm training course as a requirement of
13 the individual's employment. A person who no longer meets the conditions for an
14 exemption under this subsection must satisfy the requirements of subsection 1.
15SUMMARY
16 This bill expands the exemption for certain members of the Armed Forces of the United
17 States from completing a hunter safety course in order to acquire a hunting license to
18 include all individuals, including veterans and law enforcement officers, who have
19 completed a firearm training course as a requirement of their employment.
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