HB0281 • 2025

Landowner hunting coupons-hunts that harvest no animal.

AN ACT relating to game and fish; requiring hunters to deliver landowner coupons to a landowner when 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 Winter
Last action: 2025-03-03
Official status: inactive
Effective date: 3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The bill's status is marked as inactive, which means it did not pass during its current session.

Landowner Hunting Coupons for Antelope, Deer, and Elk

The bill requires hunters to give landowners coupons when hunting antelope, deer, or elk on their property, even if no animals are harvested. It also allows landowners to redeem these coupons for $16 each if most of the hunt occurred on their land.

What This Bill Does

Requires hunters to deliver a coupon to the landowner after hunting antelope, deer, or elk on their property, whether an animal is harvested or not.
Authorizes landowners to redeem coupons for $16 each if they can prove that most of the hunt took place on their land.
Specifies that landowners must submit coupons and proof to the department by March 1 following the hunting season.

Who It Names or Affects

Hunters who use private property for hunting 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 when they hunt on their property.
Animal damage management fund: A fund that helps manage problems caused by animals damaging crops or property.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify what happens if hunters do not give coupons to landowners.
It is unclear how the department will enforce compliance with this requirement.
This bill was marked as inactive and did not pass in its current session.

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
2025-01-24 House
H Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture
2025-01-23 House
H Received for Introduction
2025-01-23 LSO
Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0425
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0425
Introduced
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0281

Landowner hunting coupons-hunts that harvest no animal.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Winter and Williams

A BILL

for

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
on whose property the antelope, deer or elk was harvested or, if no antelope, deer or elk was harvested, on whose property a hunter utilized a hunting license for the majority of a hunting season
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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 hunter utilized a hunting license on his land for the majority of a hunting season if no antelope, deer or elk was taken
. 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, 2025
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