Bill Text: PA HB805 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In fishing licenses, further providing for exemptions from license requirements.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 34-13)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-23 - Referred to GAME AND FISHERIES [HB805 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB805-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 824
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 805 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY HICKERNELL, J. EVANS, ADOLPH, AUMENT, BARBIN, BOYD, BROOKS, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER, CONKLIN, P. COSTA, CUTLER, DENLINGER, EVERETT, FLECK, GEIST, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GILLESPIE, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GOODMAN, GRELL, GROVE, HESS, HORNAMAN, HUTCHINSON, M.K. KELLER, KILLION, KULA, LONGIETTI, MANN, MARSHALL, MILLARD, MILLER, MOUL, PICKETT, RAPP, READSHAW, ROCK, SAYLOR, SCAVELLO, STERN, STURLA AND VULAKOVICH, FEBRUARY 23, 2011
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, FEBRUARY 23, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 30 (Fish) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in fishing licenses, further providing for
exemptions from license requirements.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2709(b) of Title 30 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 2709. Exemptions from license requirements.
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(b) Persons who are blind or have certain physical or mental
impairments.--The provisions of this chapter do not apply to
those persons who are totally blind, are paraplegic or similarly
disabled in the lower extremities or have such severe physical
or mental impairments that they are unable to cast or retrieve a
line or bait hooks and remove fish if only one legal device is
used and the person who is blind or has physical or mental
impairments as described in this section is within ten feet of
the device being used. The provisions of this chapter also do
not apply to the attendant of the person who is blind or has
physical or mental impairments described in this section while
assisting in using the device.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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