Signed by Governor Laura Kelly

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes a system for the transfer of certain deer hunting permits to nonresidents.

Highlights:

• Authorizes the Secretary of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism to establish a system to administer the transfer of landowner or tenant “hunt-on-your-own-land” big game permits to non-residents for hunting white-tailed deer (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes the Secretary to restrict the location the permit transferee may hunt white-tailed deer on to the same area that the landowner or tenant was eligible to hunt (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes the Secretary to charge a permit transfer fee costing no more than half the cost of the hunting permit (Sec. 1).

• Restricts the number of permit transfers to one per landowner or tenant (Sec. 1).

• Specifies the provisions of this bill will expire on January 31, 2024 (Sec. 1).

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