Bill Text: IA SF2065 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the issuance of reduced-fee deer hunting licenses to certain landowners and tenants and their families.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-28 - Subcommittee, Dearden, Brase, and Rozenboom. S.J. 134. [SF2065 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-SF2065-Introduced.html
Senate File 2065 - Introduced SENATE FILE BY CHAPMAN A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to the issuance of reduced=fee deer hunting 2 licenses to certain landowners and tenants and their 3 families. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 5407XS (3) 86 av/nh PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 483A.24, subsection 2, paragraph d, Code 1 2 2016, is amended to read as follows: 1 3 d. In addition to the free deer hunting licenses received 1 4 pursuant to paragraph "c", an owner of a farm unit or a 1 5 member of the owner's family and the tenant or a member of the 1 6 tenant's family may purchase a deer hunting license for any 1 7 option offered to paying deer hunting licensees. An owner of a 1 8 farm unit or a member of the owner's family and the tenant or a 1 9 member of the tenant's family may also purchase two additional 1 10 antlerless deer hunting licenses which are valid only on the 1 11 farm unit for a fee of ten dollars each. The reduced=fee deer 1 12 hunting licenses issued pursuant to this paragraph shall be 1 13 valid and may be used during any deer hunting season. 1 14 EXPLANATION 1 15 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 1 16 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 1 17 This bill provides that when an owner or tenant of a 1 18 farm unit or a member of that person's family purchases a 1 19 reduced=fee antlerless deer hunting license for use on that 1 20 person's farm unit, the license may be used to hunt deer during 1 21 any deer hunting season. Currently, such reduced=fee licenses 1 22 are valid during only one specified deer hunting season. LSB 5407XS (3) 86 av/nh