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.

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 and was not considered further, so there are no effective dates or rules implemented.

Increasing Hunting License Application Fees

This act allows the game and fish commission to set application fees for hunting licenses up to specified amounts and removes minimum contribution requirements to a property damage compensation fund.

What This Bill Does

Allows the game and fish commission to set resident hunting license application fees, with a maximum of $20.00 per application.
Sets nonresident hunting license application fees at $15.00.
Removes minimum contribution requirements to the property damage compensation fund for owners or lessees of property damaged by wildlife.
Requires the game and fish commission to create rules to implement these changes.

Who It Names or Affects

Hunters who need to apply for hunting licenses in Wyoming.
The game and fish commission responsible for setting fees and creating rules.

Terms To Know

Property Damage Compensation Fund: A fund used to compensate property owners or lessees for damage caused by wildlife.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass and was not considered further.
Details about the exact rules that will be created are not specified in this act.

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 phrase related to when applications can be made.

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 about when personal applications can be made.

The amendment does not specify which types of hunting licenses these fees apply to, so it's unclear exactly what kind of licenses will have lower fees.

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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