Introduced:
01/04/2017
Sponsor: Representative Stephen J. Wood, Co-Chair, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Right to Hunt, Fish, and Harvest Wildlife
Summary:
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Maine to establish the right to hunt and fish.
Status:
128th Legislature, First Regular Session Adjourned; Carried Over to Next Session on August 2
Introduced:
02/15/2017
Sponsor: Representative Roland Danny Martin, Member, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Repeals the prohibition on the exchange for consideration of a moose permit in a designated hunting area, zone or season for another moose permit in a different designated hunting area, zone or season; requires the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to establish an online transfer system for moose permits through which transfers of designated hunting areas, zones or seasons may be accomplished.
Status:
128th Legislature, First Regular Session Adjourned; Carried Over to Next Session on August 2
Introduced:
03/01/2017
Sponsor: Representative Gary L. Hilliard, Member, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Licenses (General)
Summary:
Establishes resident and nonresident comprehensive hunting licenses that allow hunting of all legal species subject to the moose, pheasant, migratory waterfowl, special season deer and antlerless deer permit requirements; provides a fee for the resident comprehensive hunting license is a specified amount and the fee for the nonresident comprehensive hunting license is a specified amount; establishes resident and nonresident comprehensive combination hunting and fishing licenses.
Status:
128th Legislature, First Regular Session Adjourned; Carried Over to Next Session on August 2
Introduced:
03/29/2017
Sponsor: Representative Russell Black, Member, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
This bill limits the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to adding to the list of state heritage fish waters only those lakes and ponds identified as eastern brook trout waters and arctic charr waters that according to reliable records have not been stocked for at least 25 years or have never been stocked.
Status:
128th Legislature, First Regular Session Adjourned; Carried Over to Next Session on August 2
Introduced:
05/10/2017
Sponsor:
Representative Stephen S. Stanley
Issue Brief:
Forest Management
Summary:
This bill makes the following changes to the Maine Tree Growth Tax Law. 1. It includes harvesting as an expressly stated purpose for land in the Maine Tree Growth Tax Law program. 2. It removes certain items from the definition of forest products that have commercial value under the Maine Tree Growth Tax Law program. 3. It increases the minimum parcel size from 10 acres to 25 acres for the Maine Tree Growth Tax Law program for parcels enrolled on or after April 1, 2018.
Status:
128th Legislature, First Regular Session Adjourned; Carried Over to Next Session on August 2
Introduced:
01/09/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Eric Brakey
Issue Brief:
Guns (General)
Summary:
This bill lowers from 21 years of age to 18 years of age the age at which a person may carry a concealed handgun.
Status:
In House; Please in Legislative File (dead) on August 2
Introduced:
02/08/2017
Sponsor: Senator Paul T. Davis, Member, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
White-tailed Deer Management - Hunting as a Preferred Management Tool
Summary:
Requires that at least 10% of antlerless deer permits issued in a wildlife management district be issued to eligible hunters who are 70 years of age and older.
Status:
In House; Please in Legislative File (dead) on August 2
Introduced:
02/15/2017
Sponsor: Senator Thomas B. Saviello, Co-Chair, Maine Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
Forest Management
Summary:
Implements the recommendations of the Commission To Study the Public Reserved Lands Management Fund; establishes additional guidelines that must be followed by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry before it may adopt any rule that would make changes to the annual allowable harvesting level for public reserved lands and nonreserved public lands; directs the department to conduct a detailed forest inventory of the State's public reserved lands and nonreserved public lands.
Status:
Governor's veto overridden by House and Senate; enacted on July 20
Introduced:
05/15/2017
Sponsor: Assembly Member Clifford W. Crouch, Co-Chair, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Directs the commissioner of environmental conservation to include the mourning dove within the definition of migratory game birds and to allow for their taking.
Status:
Amended in Assembly Committee on Environmental Conservation on July 31
Introduced:
03/06/2017
Sponsor: Senator Michael H. Ranzenhofer, Member, New York Legislative Sportsmen's Caucus
Issue Brief:
General
Summary:
Amends the environmental conservation law; makes provisions permanent relating to hunting in the county of Genesee.
Status:
Signed by Governor on July 25
Introduced:
01/20/2017
Sponsor:
Senator Mario M. Scavello
Issue Brief:
Hunting with Dogs
Summary:
Amends Game of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in hunting and fur-taking; provides for dogs pursuing, injuring or killing big game.
Status:
In Senate. Removed from table on July 26