Hunting license lottery.

WORKING DRAFT
2013
STATE OF
WYOMING
13LSO-0143

SENATE FILE
NO.

SF0035

Hunting license lottery.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Hicks

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
hunting licenses; providing for the issuance of licenses through department authorized raffles as specified; providing that participation in the raffles is not gambling;
and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.

W.S. 6
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101(
a)(iii) by creating a new subparagraph (
J), 23
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703(b) and
23
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705
by creating a new subsection (m) are amended to read:

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101.

Definitions.

(a)

As used in this article:

(iii)

"Gambling" means risking any property for gain contingent in whole or in part upon lot, chance, the
operation of a gambling device or the happening or outcome of an event, including a sporting event, over which the person taking a risk has no control, but does not include any of the following:

(J)

The hunting license raffle
required by
W.S. 23
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705(
m).

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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. 23
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705(a)

and (m)
, 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, licenses 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). 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.

(m)

Beginning January 1, 2014, the department shall annually issue one (1) ram bighorn sheep license, one (1) ewe bighorn sheep license, one (1) moose license, one (1) mountain goat license, one (1) grizzly bear license, one
(1) bull bison license, one (1) cow bison license, three (3) elk licenses, three (3) deer licenses and three
(3) antelope licenses through

random drawing
raffle
s
. Raffle tickets for ram bighorn sheep, moose,
mountain
goat and bison licenses shall be twenty dollars ($20.00) per ticket. Raffle tickets for ewe bighorn sheep, grizzly bear,
elk
, deer and antelope licenses shall be ten dollars ($10.00) per ticket. The commission shall promulgate rules and regulations for the administration of the raffles as provided in this subsection.

The five (5) year restriction imposed on the receipt of a moose or big horn sheep license by W.S. 23
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703(
b) or the lifetime restriction imposed on the receipt of a grizzly bear or mountain goat license by W.S. 23
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703(c) shall not be applicable in any manner to a license issued pursuant to this subsection.
Any license issued under this subsection shall have no effect on the licensee
'
s accumulation of preference points or application for any other license issued under this title.

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

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