Hunting preference points-transfer.

WORKING DRAFT
2013
STATE OF
WYOMING
13LSO-0352

HOUSE BILL
NO.

HB0124

Hunting preference points-transfer.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Baker, Filer and Larsen and Senator(s) Barnard and Hicks

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
game and fish; providing for donation of accumulated preference points; providing restrictions;

providing a definition;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.
W.S. 23
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703(
b) and 23
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705 by creating a new subsection (m) is amended to read:

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703.

Limitation of number of big or trophy game animal licenses; reservation of certain licenses; reservation of certain unused licenses.

(b)

Except as specifically provided under this subsection, subsection (f) of this section or W.S.
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705(a), no person may apply for and receive more than one (1) moose or one (1) ram bighorn sheep license in any consecutive five (5) year period.
Effective for the 1995 hunting season and each hunting season thereafter, licenses issued under this subsection shall be based upon the number of points assigned to each applicant for a particular species. Effective January 1, 2000,
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icenses issued under this subsection shall be issued partially through a preference point drawing and partially through a random drawing of all remaining unsuccessful applicants for that year. The department shall assign points to each license applicant for a specific species by multiplying the number of years the applicant has unsuccessfully applied for a license times one (1)
,
and adding
any preference points donated to the applicant pursuant to W.S. 23
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705(
m)
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The calculation used to assign points to an applicant for a particular species under this subsection shall include any year the applicant does not apply for a big or trophy game animal hunting license for that species, provided in the case of a resident the applicant pays the fee specified in W.S. 23
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101(
k) and in the case of a nonresident the applicant pays the appropriate fee established by the commission under W.S. 23
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101(m). License applicants within each hunt area for a species shall be grouped
according to the number of assigned points for that species. Not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of available licenses within any hunt area shall be randomly selected through a preference point drawing from among the group of applicants with the largest number of assigned points and shall continue until all applicants within that group have been exhausted or until all available licenses have been issued, whichever first occurs.

If any applicant grouping has been exhausted and licenses remain available within that hunt area, selection shall continue from among the group of applicants with the next largest number of assigned points. After the selections through the preference point drawing have been completed within a hunt area, the remaining licenses available from that drawing and the licenses available for the random drawing for that hunt area will be issued through a random selection from among all applicants in the hunt area who were not selected for issuance of a license for the species through the preference point drawing in that hunt area.

For purposes of assigning points under this subsection, any unsuccessful license applicant failing to apply for a license, or pay the applicable fee in lieu of applying, during the second calendar year shall be considered to be a first year applicant for any subsequent calendar year in which the
applicant submits license application for that particular species.

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705.

Complimentary licenses; one-shot antelope hunt licenses; gunpowder and buckskin hunt licenses; gratuitous licenses; donated licenses
; donated preference points
.

(m)

The holder of any valid big game preference points may, once in the holder
'
s lifetime, apply in writing to the department to transfer his currently accumulated preference points
for one (1) or more species
to a specified
recipient who is an immediate family member

in a format as
established by commission rule and regulation. Any preference points transferred in accordance with the provisions of this subsection shall be for the same species as the preference points donated and shall be transferred to a
recipient
with the same residency status as the donating person. The preference points shall be transferred by the department to the specified recipient
for a fee of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) per species
. Any preference points donated and transferred under the provisions of this subsection shall not be sold, purchased, traded, auctioned or offered for any monetary value and
shall not be issued to, or used by, any person other than the specified recipient. Preference points transferred to a recipient shall be subject to all other limitations and restrictions on preference points as if the recipient earned the preference points as otherwise provided by law.
For purposes of this subsection,
"
immediate family member
"
means
a spouse, child
or
stepchild.

Section 2.
This act is effective July 1, 2013.

(END)

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