Moose and bighorn sheep hunting license-restrictions repeal.

24LSO-0526
2024
STATE OF WYOMING
24LSO-0526
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0207

Moose and bighorn sheep hunting license-restrictions repeal.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Newsome, Berger and Burkhart and Senator(s) Dockstader and Landen

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish; removing the lifetime restriction on the receipt of a moose or bighorn sheep license when a person was previously subject to the five year restriction for those species; making conforming amendments; specifying applicability; 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(c) and 23
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705(a) are amended to read:

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703.

Limitation of number of certain licenses; reservation of certain licenses; reservation of certain unused licenses.

(c)

Except as provided in this subsection and subsection (f) of this section or by rule of the commission, no person who is issued a hunting license on and after July 1, 2022 for a grizzly bear, or for a mountain goat, any moose or antlered moose, any ram bighorn sheep, any bighorn sheep and any wild bison
, and no person who, on July 1, 2022, is subject to the five (5) year restriction under subsection (b) of this section for a moose or bighorn sheep license,
shall be eligible to apply for or receive a hunting license for that particular species in any future year. The commission may issue hunting licenses to any person in future years when necessary for wildlife management purposes to harvest grizzly bear, mountain goat, ewe or lamb bighorn sheep or cow or calf moose. The commission may issue hunting licenses to any person to harvest cow or calf wild bison pursuant to W.S. 23
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107(f).

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705.

Complimentary licenses; pioneer licenses; antelope hunt licenses; gunpowder and buckskin hunt licenses; gratuitous licenses; donated licenses.

(a)

At the request of the governor, the commission shall annually issue up to twenty
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five (25) complimentary hunting and twenty
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five (25) complimentary fishing licenses.

Not more than five (5) bighorn sheep, five (5) moose and five (5) wild bison licenses shall be issued under this subsection. The five (5) year restriction imposed on the receipt of a
cow or calf
moose
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or ewe or lamb
bighorn sheep
or wild bison
license by W.S. 23
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703(b)
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and (c),
a cow or calf wild bison license by W.S. 23-2-107(f)
and any restriction imposed on taking of wild bison under commission rule and regulation shall not be applicable in any manner to a license issued pursuant to this subsection.

Except as provided under subsection (g) of this section, no complimentary licenses may be issued at the request of the appointed commissioners. Immediately upon issuance of any of these licenses, the commission shall submit to the secretary of state for maintenance as a public record, the name and address of each licensee and the type of license issued.

Section 2
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Any person who is restricted from applying for and receiving a moose or bighorn sheep license in any future year because, as of July 1, 2022, the person was subject to the five (5) year restriction under W.S. 23
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703(b) shall be allowed to apply for and receive a moose or bighorn sheep license as if the person had not received a cow or calf moose or ewe or lamb bighorn sheep license after July 1, 2022 but the person shall then be subject to the lifetime restriction pursuant to W.S. 23
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703(c) if that person is issued a moose or bighorn sheep license on and after the effective date of this act.

Section 3
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This act is effective July 1, 2024
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