HB0109 • 2025

Trespassing-suspend hunting license.

AN ACT relating to game and fish; prohibiting hunters who are convicted of trespassing on private land from purchasing hunting, fishing and trapping licenses as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Inactive

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

Sponsor: Representative Allemand
Last action: 2025-03-03
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not provide specific details about when different sections become effective. The official text specifies that certain sections are effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law, while others take effect on July 1, 2025.

Trespassing-suspend hunting license

This act stops hunters who are convicted of trespassing on private land from buying hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for two years.

What This Bill Does

Changes the law to say that if a hunter is found guilty of trespassing on someone's private property while hunting, they lose their right to buy hunting, fishing, and trapping licenses for two years.
Requires the game and fish commission to make rules about how this new law will work.

Who It Names or Affects

Hunters who are found guilty of trespassing on private land in Wyoming.
The game and fish commission which has to make rules about the new law.

Terms To Know

Trespassing: Going onto someone's property without permission, especially when it is against the law.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill did not pass and is now inactive, meaning it will not become law in the current session.
It does not specify what happens if a hunter accidentally trespasses without knowing they were on private land.

Bill History

2025-03-03 House
H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4
2025-02-07 House
H No report prior to CoW Cutoff
2025-01-29 House
:Refer to H05 - Agriculture
2025-01-29 House
:Recalled from Committee Pursuant to House Rule 5-6: 54-7-1-0-0
2025-01-20 House
H Introduced and Referred to H06 - Travel
2025-01-06 House
H Received for Introduction
2025-01-03 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0361
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0361
Introduced
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0109

Trespassing-suspend hunting license.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Allemand and Campbell, K and Senator(s) French and Ide

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to game and fish; prohibiting hunters who are convicted of trespassing on private land from purchasing hunting, fishing and trapping licenses as specified; 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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3
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305(b) is amended to read:

23
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3
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305.

Hunting from highway; entering or traveling through private property without permission; penalty; hunting at night without permission prohibited.

(b)

No person shall enter upon, travel through or return across the private property of any person to take wildlife, hunt, fish, collect antlers or horns, or trap without the permission of the owner or person in charge of the property. Violation of this subsection constitutes a low misdemeanor
punishable as
provided in W.S. 23
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202(a)(v)
shall result in the person losing hunting, fishing and trapping license privileges for two (2) years from the date of the violation in addition to the penalties
. For purposes of this subsection
,
"travel through
and
or return across" requires physically touching or driving on the surface of the private property.

Section 2.

The game and fish commission shall promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.

Section 3.

(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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