THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY J. EVANS, STABACK, EVERETT, GILLESPIE, HEFFLEY, HORNAMAN, M. K. KELLER, KULA, MOUL, PYLE, ROCK, AUMENT, BAKER, BENNINGHOFF, BOBACK, BOYD, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, DALEY, DONATUCCI, FARRY, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GILLEN, GODSHALL, GOODMAN, GROVE, HARHART, HARKINS, HESS, HICKERNELL, KAUFFMAN, MURT, MYERS, PICKETT, QUINN, RAPP, READSHAW, REICHLEY, SCHRODER, SONNEY, STEVENSON, TALLMAN, VULAKOVICH AND WHITE, MARCH 31, 2011

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, MARCH 31, 2011  

AN ACT

Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, in hunting and furtaking licenses, further

providing for resident license and fee exemptions.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 2706(f)(1) and (g)(1) of Title 34 of the

Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:

§ 2706.  Resident license and fee exemptions.

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(f)  Pennsylvania National Guard hunting licenses.--

(1)  Pennsylvania National Guard hunting licenses shall

be issued by the commission or county treasurer to any person

otherwise eligible for a resident hunting license in this

Commonwealth who provides documentation that within the

previous 24 months the person was deployed overseas as a

member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard or Air

National Guard on active Federal service for a period of

[180] 60 consecutive days or more or was released early from

such service because of an injury or disease incurred in the

line of duty. Only one Pennsylvania National Guard hunting

license under this subsection may be issued for each

qualifying deployment of a person applying for the license.

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(g)  Reserve component of armed forces hunting licenses.--

(1)  Reserve component of the armed forces hunting

licenses shall be issued by the commission or county

treasurer to any person otherwise eligible for a resident

hunting license in this Commonwealth who provides

documentation that within the previous 24 months the person

was deployed overseas as a member of the reserve component of

the armed forces pursuant to 51 Pa.C.S. § 7301 (relating to

definitions) for a period of [180] 60 consecutive days or

more or was released early from service because of an injury

or disease incurred in the line of duty. Only one hunting

license under this subsection may be issued for each

qualifying deployment of a person applying for the license.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.