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LD777 • 2025

Resolve, Directing the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to Study Lengthening the Muzzle-loading Season for Deer in Certain Wildlife Management Districts

Resolve, Directing the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to Study Lengthening the Muzzle-loading Season for Deer in Certain Wildlife Management Districts

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Representative Richard Mason
Last action
2025-05-23
Official status
Signed by the Governor
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Resolve, Directing the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to Study Lengthening the Muzzle-loading Season for Deer in Certain Wildlife Management Districts

Resolve, Directing the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to Study Lengthening the Muzzle-loading Season for Deer in Certain Wildlife Management Districts Sponsor: Representative Richard Mason Reference committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Governor action: Signed by the Governor

What This Bill Does

  • Resolve, Directing the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to Study Lengthening the Muzzle-loading Season for Deer in Certain Wildlife Management Districts Sponsor: Representative Richard Mason Reference committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Governor action: Signed by the Governor

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Adopted by House & Senate

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR1077(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR1077(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 777 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • H- ) 3INLAND FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE 4 Reproduced and distributed under the direction of the Clerk of the House.
  • 5STATE OF MAINE 6HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 7132ND LEGISLATURE 8FIRST SPECIAL SESSION 9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT “ ” to H.P.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-23 Governor

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-05-21 Senate

    FINALLY PASSED , in concurrence.

  3. 2025-05-20 House

    FINALLY PASSED . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  4. 2025-05-06 Committee

    Reported Out; OTP-AM

  5. 2025-03-26 Committee

    Work Session Held

  6. 2025-03-26 Committee

    Voted; OTP-AM

  7. 2025-02-27 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

Official Summary Text

Resolve, Directing the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to Study Lengthening the Muzzle-loading Season for Deer in Certain Wildlife Management Districts
Sponsor:
Representative Richard Mason
Reference committee:
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Governor action:
Signed by the Governor

Current Bill Text

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Page 1 - 132LR1077(03)
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE
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H.P. 502 - L.D. 777
Resolve, Directing the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to Study
Lengthening the Muzzle-loading Season for Deer in Certain Wildlife
Management Districts
Sec. 1. Study of muzzle-loading season for deer and expanding season in
certain wildlife management districts. Resolved: That the Department of Inland
Fisheries and Wildlife shall study lengthening the muzzle-loading season for deer beyond
the 6-day season currently established in department rule in additional wildlife
management districts in the State where winter conditions are less severe.
Sec. 2. Report. Resolved: That, by January 1, 2026, the department shall submit a
report to the Joint Standing Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife that includes an
overview of the study findings pursuant to section 1 and any recommendations to identify
additional wildlife management districts where the length of the special muzzle-loading
season on deer could be extended. The report must include a map identifying the muzzle-
loading season for deer in each wildlife management district in the State and highlight on
the map wildlife management districts that are currently permitted by rule to have a longer
season than 6 days, wildlife management districts that the department determines could
have an extended season and wildlife management districts that the department determines
should continue to have a 6-day season. The committee may report out a bill related to the
report to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature.
APPROVED
MAY 23, 2025
BY GOVERNOR
CHAPTER
35
RESOLVES