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:
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  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.
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