Bill > HB505

This bill revises laws regarding the issuance of elk licenses used on private lands. It creates a new Class B-13 landowner-sponsored nonresident elk-only combination license, which allows qualifying landowners to sponsor up to 10 license applicants to hunt solely on their deeded land or property. The bill also introduces an antlerless elk-only option, where a person who obtains a Class A-5 elk tag or equivalent nonresident elk tag can indicate they will only use the tag to hunt antlerless elk on private land in hunting districts where the elk population is above the sustainable population number. Exercising this option restricts the person from applying for an elk permit by drawing but provides bonus points for future drawings. The bill also amends existing law to allow the bonus point system to apply to this new antlerless elk-only option.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

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