HB0227 • 2021

Hunting tag refund or reimbursement-chronic wasting disease.

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing a refund or reimbursement of hunting licenses due to chronic wasting disease as specified; and providing for effective dates.

Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor: Representative Jennings
Last action: 2021-04-07
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2021

Plain English Breakdown

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Hunting Tag Refund or Reimbursement Due to Chronic Wasting Disease

This act allows hunters who kill elk or deer that test positive for chronic wasting disease to get a refund of half their hunting license fee or a replacement license.

What This Bill Does

Allows hunters with valid Wyoming cow elk licenses to request a refund of half the license fee if they kill an elk testing positive for chronic wasting disease.
Permits hunters who take a doe deer that tests positive for chronic wasting disease to get a refund of half their hunting license fee or a replacement license.
Requires the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission to create rules to implement this act.

Who It Names or Affects

Hunters with valid elk or deer licenses in Wyoming who kill an animal testing positive for chronic wasting disease.

Terms To Know

Chronic Wasting Disease: A fatal brain disorder that affects deer, elk, and moose.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill is marked as inactive by Wyoming, meaning it did not pass in the current session.
It does not specify what happens if hunters choose a replacement license instead of a refund.

Bill History

2021-04-07 House
H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4
2021-03-24 House
H No report prior to CoW Cutoff
2021-03-11 House
H06 - Travel:Do Pass Failed 2-7-0-0-0
2021-03-05 House
H Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel
2021-03-04 House
H Received for Introduction
2021-03-02 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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21LSO-0483
2021
STATE OF WYOMING
21LSO-0483
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0227

Hunting tag refund or reimbursement-chronic wasting disease.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Jennings, Baker, Fortner, Haroldson, Neiman and Styvar and Senator(s) French and Hutchings

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing a refund or reimbursement of hunting licenses due to chronic wasting disease as specified; and providing for effective dates.

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

Section 1
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W.S. 23
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705 by creating new subsections (m) and (n) is amended to read:

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705.

Complimentary licenses; antelope hunt licenses; gunpowder and buckskin hunt licenses; gratuitous
licenses; donated licenses; elk

and deer license reimbursements.

(m)

A resident holder of a valid Wyoming cow elk hunting license, who takes a cow elk that tests positive for chronic wasting disease may, at the election of the license holder, request and receive from the department a reimbursement of one
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half (1/2) of the license fee paid pursuant to W.S. 23
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101(j)(xviii) or (xx) or a replacement cow elk license to be used in the same season and area unless the license holder requests and the commission approves the replacement license to be used in another season or area.

(n)

A resident holder of a valid Wyoming doe deer hunting license, who takes a doe deer that tests positive for chronic wasting disease may, at the election of the license holder, request and receive from the department a reimbursement of one
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half (1/2) of the license fee paid pursuant to W.S. 23
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101(j)(xiv) or (xvi) or a replacement doe deer license to be used in the same season and area unless the license holder requests and the commission
approves the replacement license to be used in another season or area.

Section 2.

The Wyoming game and fish commission shall promulgate any rules necessary to implement this act.

Section 3.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective July 1, 2021.

(b) Sections 2 and 3 of this act are effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

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