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LD205 • 2025

An Act to Amend the Bag Limit for Turkey

An Act to Amend the Bag Limit for Turkey

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Sponsor
Senator Jeffrey Timberlake
Last action
2025-03-27
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act to Amend the Bag Limit for Turkey

An Act to Amend the Bag Limit for Turkey Sponsor: Senator Jeffrey Timberlake Reference committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Amend the Bag Limit for Turkey Sponsor: Senator Jeffrey Timberlake Reference committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-03-27 Senate

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

  2. 2025-03-26 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP

  3. 2025-03-05 Committee

    Work Session Held

  4. 2025-03-05 Committee

    Voted; ONTP

  5. 2025-01-14 House

    The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on INLAND FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE . In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  6. 2025-01-14 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Amend the Bag Limit for Turkey
Sponsor:
Senator Jeffrey Timberlake
Reference committee:
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 205
S.P. 92 In Senate, January 14, 2025
An Act to Amend the Bag Limit for Turkey
Reference to the Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife suggested and ordered
printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator TIMBERLAKE of Androscoggin.
Cosponsored by Senator: BLACK of Franklin, Representatives: LYMAN of Livermore Falls,
WOOD of Greene.

Page 1 - 132LR0693(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §11751-A, sub-§2-A is enacted to read:
32-A. Wild turkey bag limit same as ruffed grouse limit. Limits established by rule
4 on the maximum number of wild turkey that may be taken within any given period of time
5 must be the same as the limits on the maximum number of ruffed grouse that may be taken.
6Sec. 2. Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to adopt rules. The
7 Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife shall adopt rules as soon as practicable in
8 accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, section 11751-A, subsection 2-A.
9SUMMARY
10 This bill provides that bag limits for wild turkey established by rule by the Department
11 of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife must be the same as bag limits for ruffed grouse.
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