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HB0285 • 2023

Landowner hunting coupons-hunts that harvest no animals.

AN ACT relating to game and fish; requiring hunters to deliver landowner coupons to a landowner whenever using a landowner's property for hunting antelope, deer or elk; authorizing landowners to redeem landowner coupons whenever the majority of a hunt for antelope, deer or elk occurred on the landowner's property; and providing for an effective date.

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Inactive

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not provide details about what happens if the hunt is split between multiple properties or how it affects hunters without clear agreements with landowners.

Landowner Hunting Coupons for Antelope, Deer and Elk Hunts

The bill requires hunters to give landowners coupons after hunting on their property, even if no animals are harvested. It also allows landowners to receive $16 per coupon if most of the hunt occurred on their land.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires hunters to deliver a landowner coupon to the landowner after hunting antelope, deer or elk on their property, whether an animal is killed or not.
  • Authorizes landowners to redeem each landowner coupon for $16 if most of the hunt occurred on their property.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Hunters who use private property to hunt antelope, deer or elk.
  • Landowners whose property is used for hunting these animals.

Terms To Know

Landowner coupon
A special paper hunters give to landowners after using their property for hunting.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify what happens if the hunt is split between multiple landowners' properties.
  • It's unclear how this will affect hunters who do not have a clear agreement with landowners about hunting rights.
  • 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. 2023-01-27 House

    H Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture

  4. 2023-01-26 House

    H Received for Introduction

  5. 2023-01-26 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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23LSO-0570
2023
STATE OF WYOMING
23LSO-0570
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0285

Landowner hunting coupons-hunts that harvest no animals.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Slagle, Allemand and Sommers and Senator(s) Steinmetz

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish; requiring hunters to deliver landowner coupons to a landowner whenever using a landowner's property for hunting antelope, deer or elk; authorizing landowners to redeem landowner coupons whenever the majority of a hunt for antelope, deer or elk occurred on the landowner's property; 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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105(b) is amended to read:

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105.

Antelope, deer and elk coupons; payment to landowner; kill on federal or state land.

(b)

When hunting on a landowner's property, upon harvesting an antelope, deer or elk or at the conclusion of a hunt without harvesting an antelope, deer or elk, t
he landowner's coupon shall promptly be detached, dated, signed and delivered to the landowner
whose property the antelope, deer or elk was harvested on or, if no antelope, deer or elk was harvested, on whose property the majority of the hunt took place
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The landowner, on or before March 1 following the close of the hunting season for which the license was issued, shall deliver to the department the coupon and an affidavit that the antelope, deer or elk for which the coupon was delivered was killed on his land
or that a hunt for antelope, deer or elk occurred on his land
. Upon receipt of the coupon and affidavit the department shall pay the landowner sixteen dollars ($16.00) for each coupon from an antelope, deer or elk license. Landowner's coupons are not transferable. Any unauthorized person attempting to collect any sum for any landowner's coupon is guilty of a high misdemeanor punishable as provided in W.S. 23
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202(a)(ii).

Effective January 1, 2000, the department shall provide a checkoff box on each landowner coupon affidavit claim form that offers the claimant the opportunity to designate the animal damage management board to receive his payment amount for landowner coupons claimed on that form. For each claim made where the landowner has designated his payment to the animal damage management board, the department shall transfer that amount to the animal damage management account created by W.S. 11
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306 and the department shall retain the fees related to those administrative costs of the transfer.

Section 2
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This act is effective July 1, 2023
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