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HB0247 • 2023

Trophy game animals-wanton waste.

AN ACT relating to game and fish; prohibiting the waste of edible portions of trophy game animals and possession of parts of wasted trophy game animals; prohibiting the abandonment of trophy game animal meat at a meat processing plant; and providing for an effective date.

Inactive

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

Sponsor
Representative Newsome
Last action
2023-02-07
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2023

Plain English Breakdown

The candidate explanation included a statement about reporting requirements for meat left at a processing plant which was removed as it was not directly supported by the provided official source material.

No Wasting Trophy Game Animals

The bill prohibits the waste of edible parts from trophy game animals and bans leaving such meat at a processing plant for more than 45 days without an agreement.

What This Bill Does

  • It stops people from wasting any part of trophy game animals that can be eaten.
  • It makes it against the rules to keep parts of trophy game animals if those parts were wasted.
  • It does not allow leaving meat from trophy game animals at a processing plant for more than 45 days without an agreement.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Hunters who kill trophy game animals
  • People who process and store trophy game animal meat

Terms To Know

Trophy Game Animals
Special types of wild animals that are hunted for their horns, antlers, or other parts.
Waste
Not using all the edible meat from an animal after it has been killed.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not say what happens if someone accidentally wastes meat.
  • It is unclear how the department will handle meat that cannot be sold within 30 days of confiscation.
  • This bill was marked as inactive and did not pass in its current session.

Bill History

  1. 2023-02-07 House

    H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4

  2. 2023-02-07 House

    H No report prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2023-01-31 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture

  4. 2023-01-25 House

    H Received for Introduction

  5. 2023-01-24 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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23LSO-0339
2023
STATE OF WYOMING
23LSO-0339
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0247

Trophy game animals-wanton waste.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Newsome, Larson, JT, Western and Wylie and Senator(s) Landen

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish; prohibiting the waste of edible portions of trophy game animals and possession of parts of wasted trophy game animals; prohibiting the abandonment of trophy game animal meat at a meat processing plant; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1
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W.S. 23
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3
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303 is amended to read:

23
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3
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303.

Waste of edible portion of game bird, fish or animal prohibited; abandonment of meat at meat processing plant.

(a)

No person shall take and leave, abandon or allow any game bird, game fish, or game animal
,

except trophy game animal,
or edible portion, to intentionally or needlessly go to waste.

No person shall knowingly possess any parts of a big game animal
or trophy game animal
wasted as provided in this subsection.

(b)

The failure of any person to properly dress and care for any big game animal
or trophy game animal
killed by that person, and, if the carcass is reasonably accessible, within forty
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eight (48) hours to take or transport the carcass to the camp of that person, and there properly care for the carcass, is prima facie evidence of a violation of subsection (a)
of this section
.

(c)

No person shall abandon meat from a big game animal
, trophy game animal
or game bird at a meat processing plant.

Unless there is an express agreement between the processing plant and the person providing otherwise, any person leaving meat from a big game animal
, trophy game animal
or game bird at a meat processing plant for more than forty
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five (45) days is prima facie evidence of a violation of this subsection if written notice of the expiration of time has been attempted by the processing plant in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by the game and fish department. The owner or operator in charge of any meat processing plant shall immediately report a violation of this subsection to any enforcement personnel of the department. Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, the owner of the meat processing plant is entitled to the proceeds of sale of any meat confiscated under this subsection up to the amount of reasonable processing or storage charges following a conviction under this subsection or a reasonable time after the violation is reported.

If the department has been unsuccessful in selling the confiscated meat within thirty (30) days following the reported violation, the department may dispose of the meat as it deems appropriate.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2023
.

(END)

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