Bill Text: SC H4614 | 2021-2022 | 124th General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Wildlife Management Areas

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 22-3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-04-07 - Referred to Committee on Fish, Game and Forestry [H4614 Detail]

Download: South_Carolina-2021-H4614-Amended.html


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AMENDED

April 6, 2022

H. 4614

Introduced by Reps. B. Cox, White, Wooten, Caskey, Elliott, T. Moore, G.R. Smith, M.M. Smith, Bennett, Ballentine, Jones, Morgan, McCabe, Blackwell, Oremus, Atkinson, Davis, Kirby, B. Newton, Willis, Taylor, Hill, W. Cox, Garvin and Fry

S. Printed 4/6/22--H.

Read the first time January 11, 2022.

            

A BILL

TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 50-11-2250 SO AS TO PERMIT A PERSON AUTHORIZED TO HUNT ON A WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA TO HUNT ON A SUNDAY.

Amend Title To Conform

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, the Department of Natural Resources shall:

(1)     propose the repeal of S.C. Regulation 123-40 General Regulation 2.5; and

(2)     allow Sunday hunting on wildlife management area lands owned by the department or leased from the USDA Forest Service, subject to regulations promulgated by the department.

SECTION    2.    Final regulations required in Section 1 must be filed for General Assembly review no later than December 31, 2022.

SECTION    3.    (A)    A regulation submission by the Department of Natural Resources dealing with Sunday Hunting shall be referred to the House Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Committee.

(B)    Only after receiving a majority vote approving the regulation by the House Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Committee may the regulation be sent to the Regulations and Administrative Procedures Committee.

SECTION    4.    This Act takes effect upon approval of the Governor.

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