Bill Text: IA HF2173 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to damages assessed for engaging in prohibited actions involving eagles, and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 2037.)
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-15 - Referred to Natural Resources. H.J. 593. [HF2173 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2017-HF2173-Introduced.html
House File 2173 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES (SUCCESSOR TO HF 2037) A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to damages assessed for engaging in prohibited 2 actions involving eagles, and making penalties applicable. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 5604HV (1) 87 js/rn PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 481A.130, subsection 1, paragraphs a and 1 2 c, Code 2018, are amended to read as follows: 1 3 a. For each eagle, elk, antelope, buffalo, or moose, two 1 4 thousand five hundred dollars. 1 5 c. For each bird, other than an eagle, or animal or the raw 1 6 pelt or plumage of such bird or animal for which damages are 1 7 not otherwise prescribed, fifty dollars. 1 8 EXPLANATION 1 9 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 1 10 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 1 11 Current law requires a person convicted of unlawfully 1 12 selling, taking, catching, killing, injuring, destroying, or 1 13 having in their possession an eagle to reimburse the state in 1 14 the amount of $50, in addition to other penalties. This bill 1 15 requires a person convicted of such a violation involving an 1 16 eagle to reimburse the state for assessed damages in the amount 1 17 of $2,500, in addition to other penalties. LSB 5604HV (1) 87 js/rn
