HB0002 • 2025

Hunting license application fees increase.

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing the game and fish commission to set application fees for hunting licenses as specified; removing minimum contribution requirements to property damage compensation fund; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor: Travel
Last action: 2025-02-10
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The bill did not pass, so there are no official rules or effective dates to refer to for application fee amounts.

Increasing Hunting License Application Fees

This act allows the game and fish commission to set application fees for hunting licenses and removes requirements for contributions to a property damage compensation fund.

What This Bill Does

Allows the game and fish commission to establish application fees for big or trophy game license applications, with limits on how much these fees can be.
Removes the requirement that at least twenty-five percent of collected fees must go into a property damage compensation fund.
Requires the game and fish commission to create rules by July 1, 2025, to put this act into effect.

Who It Names or Affects

Hunters who apply for big or trophy game licenses
The game and fish commission

Terms To Know

Application fee: Money paid when applying to buy a hunting license.
Property damage compensation fund: A fund used to pay for damages caused by game animals and birds.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass, so the changes it proposed will not take effect.
It is unclear how much the new application fees will be since they are set by the commission.

Amendments

These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.

HB0002HS001

Standing Committee • House Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Re

Filed

Plain English: The amendment reduces the application fees for hunting licenses and removes a specific phrase related to when these fees are applied.

Changes the fee from $20.00 to $10.00 for one type of hunting license application.
Changes the fee from $75.00 to $50.00 for another type of hunting license application.
Removes language that specifies when these fees are applied.

The amendment does not specify which types of hunting licenses these changes apply to, so it's unclear exactly which applications will be affected.

Bill History

2025-02-10 House
H COW:H Did not consider for COW
2025-02-06 House
H Placed on General File
2025-02-06 House
H06 - Travel:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 8-1-0-0-0
2025-01-16 House
H Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel
2025-01-02 House
H Received for Introduction
2024-12-02 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0057
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0057
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0002

Hunting license application fees increase.

Sponsored by: Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife & Cultural Resources Interim Committee

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing the game and fish commission to set application fees for hunting licenses as specified; removing minimum contribution requirements to property damage compensation fund; requiring rulemaking; 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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2
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101(e) is amended to read:

23
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2
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101.

Fees; restrictions; nonresident application fee; nonresident licenses; verification of residency required; donation of refunded application fees.

(e)

Resident and nonresident license applicants shall pay an application fee in an amount specified by this subsection upon submission of an application for purchase of any limited quota drawing for big or trophy game license or wild bison license.
The resident
A
pplication
fee
fees
shall be
five dollars ($5.00)
established by rule and shall not exceed twenty dollars ($20.00) for resident applications
and
the
seventy
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five dollars ($75.00) for
nonresident
application fee shall be fifteen dollars ($15.00)
applications for all personal applications made at the same time
. The application fee is in addition to the fees prescribed by subsections (f) and (j) of this section and by W.S. 23
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2
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107 and shall be payable to the department either directly or through an authorized selling agent of the department.
At the beginning of each month, the commission shall set aside all of the fees collected during calendar year 1980 and not to exceed twenty
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five percent (25%) of the fees collected thereafter pursuant to this subsection to establish and maintain a working balance of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000.00), to compensate owners or lessees of property damaged by game animals and game birds.

Section 2.

The game and fish commission shall promulgate all rules necessary to implement the provisions of this act not later than July 1, 2025.

Section 3
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(a)

Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective July 1, 2025.

(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.

(END)

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