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SF0118 • 2025

Landowner hunting tags-amendments.

AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing landowners to sell their landowner hunting licenses as specified; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

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Inactive

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

Sponsor
Senator Pearson
Last action
2025-03-03
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2025

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide detailed information on the sale price of hunting licenses.

Landowner Hunting License Sales

This act allows landowners in Wyoming to sell their hunting licenses for elk, deer, antelope, and turkey under specific conditions set by the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission.

What This Bill Does

  • Allows landowners to sell hunting licenses they have obtained for elk, deer, antelope, and turkey.
  • Requires the sale of these licenses to follow rules set by the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission.
  • Exempts sold licenses from a landowner coupon payment if purchased according to the act's guidelines.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Landowners who have hunting licenses for elk, deer, antelope, or turkey.
  • People buying these hunting licenses from landowners.

Terms To Know

landowner
A person who owns a piece of land.
hunting license
A permit that allows someone to hunt animals like elk, deer, antelope, and turkey in Wyoming.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The act does not specify how the sale price of hunting licenses should be set.
  • It is unclear if this bill will become law since it was marked as inactive by Wyoming's legislature.

Bill History

  1. 2025-03-03 Senate

    S:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to SR 5-4

  2. 2025-02-10 Senate

    S No report prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2025-01-23 Senate

    :Refer to S05 - Agriculture

  4. 2025-01-22 Senate

    S Introduced and Referred to S06 - Travel

  5. 2025-01-16 Senate

    S Received for Introduction

  6. 2025-01-15 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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25LSO-0576
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0576
Numbered
2.0

SENATE FILE NO. SF0118

Landowner hunting tags-amendments.

Sponsored by: Senator(s) Pearson, Boner, Ide, McKeown, Smith, D and Steinmetz and Representative(s) Brady, Heiner, Lien, McCann, Schmid, Webber and Wharff

A BILL

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AN ACT relating to game and fish; authorizing landowners to sell their landowner hunting 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.

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302(h) is amended to read:

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302.

Powers and duties.

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For purposes of promoting the maintenance of wildlife habitat and attaining wildlife management objectives pursuant to W.S. 23
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103 and in addition to duties prescribed under paragraph (a)(xiv) of this section, the commission shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the issuance of elk, deer, antelope and turkey hunting licenses to Wyoming landowners without subjection to prescribed means of competitive public issuance.

Fees assessed for licenses authorized under this subsection shall be equal to fees prescribed under W.S. 23
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101(j) for each species for which the license is issued.
A landowner who has obtained a hunting license under this subsection shall be authorized to sell the hunting license to another person in accordance with the following:

(i)

Licenses issued to anyone other than the landowner, including immediate family of the landowner, shall not be eligible for sale under this subsection;

(ii)

The purchaser shall be subject to all applicable statutes and regulations concerning hunting licenses pursuant to this subsection;

(iii)

The commission shall promulgate rules and regulations that govern the sale of hunting licenses and re
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issuance of the hunting license to another person once they have been issued by the department, pursuant to this subsection;

(iv)

Licenses that are sold to another person authorized by this subsection shall be exempt from a landowner coupon payment pursuant to W.S. 23
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105(b).

Section 2
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The game and fish department shall promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.

Section 3
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(a)

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

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