Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes the issuing of hunting, trapping, and fishing license to post-secondary school students from out of state.

Highlights:

• Requires that in addition to fees for a hunting license, each person who buys a hunting license must aso pay an intensive management surcharge for the purpose of providing funding for the intensive management of the state’s game population (Sec. 1).

• Exempts a person eligible for a $5 resident hunting, rapping, and sport fishing license or a free license from payment of the surcharge imposed under this subsection (Sec. 1).

• Requires that the surcharge amount attached to each license be clearly disclosed on the license (Sec. 1).

• Specifies that a resident hunting license is $10 and a nonresident hunting license is $30 (Sec. 1).

• Authorizes an individual enrolled as a half-time or full-time student at a postsecondary institution who does not qualify as a resident the ability to obtain a special nonresident postsecondary student license for sport fishing, hunting, and trapping by paying the fee for a resident who has an annual family household income above the most recent poverty guidelines for the state set by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (Sec. 2).

• Authorizes the Department of Fish and Game the ability to adopt regulations necessary to implement the changes made by this Act (Sec. 3).

• Authorizes Section 3 to take effect immediately after passage (Sec. 4).

• Specifies that this Act takes effect January 1, 2024 (Sec. 5).

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