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The bill
eliminates the muzzle loading permit, crossbow hunting license, bear hunting
permit, combined fall and spring turkey hunting permit, pheasant hunting
permit, migratory waterfowl hunting permit and night coyote hunting permit.
This bill establishes a permit package at $34 each, allowing holders of the
permit package to hunt coyotes at night, bears, wild turkeys, pheasants,
migratory waterfowl, antlerless deer and deer during an expanded archery
season if an expanded archery season is adopted by rule. This bill directs no
less than $22,000, $31,000 and $83,000 of revenues from permit packages to go
to the Pheasant Fund, Black Bear Research Fund and an account within the
Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) used for acquistion of waterfowl
habitat and waterfowl management activities, respectively. IFW indicated that
offering this permit package at $34 each will result in no net General Fund
or Other Special Revenue Funds revenue change. |