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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| SENATE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY BAKER, VANCE, BROWNE, BRUBAKER, COSTA, ERICKSON, FERLO, FOLMER, FONTANA, GORDNER, GREENLEAF, KITCHEN, LOGAN, O'PAKE, ORIE, PILEGGI, PIPPY, RAFFERTY, ROBBINS, SCARNATI, STACK, TARTAGLIONE, TOMLINSON, VOGEL, WAUGH, D. WHITE, M. WHITE, WONDERLING AND YAW, FEBRUARY 20, 2009 |
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| REFERRED TO GAME AND FISHERIES, FEBRUARY 20, 2009 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated |
2 | Statutes, further providing for resident license and fee |
3 | exemptions for deployed Pennsylvania National Guard members. |
4 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
5 | hereby enacts as follows: |
6 | Section 1. Section 2706(f) and (g) of Title 34 of the |
7 | Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read: |
8 | § 2706. Resident license and fee exemptions. |
9 | * * * |
10 | (f) Pennsylvania National Guard hunting licenses.-- |
11 | (1) Pennsylvania National Guard hunting licenses shall |
12 | be issued by the commission or county treasurer to any person |
13 | otherwise eligible for a resident hunting license in this |
14 | Commonwealth who provides documentation that within the |
15 | previous 24 months the person was deployed overseas as a |
16 | member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard or Air |
17 | National Guard on active Federal service for a period of |
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1 | [180] 60 consecutive days or more or was released early from |
2 | such service because of an injury or disease incurred in the |
3 | line of duty. Only one Pennsylvania National Guard hunting |
4 | license under this subsection may be issued for each |
5 | qualifying deployment of a person applying for the license. |
6 | (2) The commission may promulgate regulations to |
7 | implement this subsection. |
8 | (g) Reserve component of armed forces hunting licenses.-- |
9 | (1) Reserve component of the armed forces hunting |
10 | licenses shall be issued by the commission or county |
11 | treasurer to any person otherwise eligible for a resident |
12 | hunting license in this Commonwealth who provides |
13 | documentation that within the previous 24 months the person |
14 | was deployed overseas as a member of the reserve component of |
15 | the armed forces pursuant to 51 Pa.C.S. § 7301 (relating to |
16 | definitions) for a period of [180] 60 consecutive days or |
17 | more or was released early from service because of an injury |
18 | or disease incurred in the line of duty. Only one hunting |
19 | license under this subsection may be issued for each |
20 | qualifying deployment of a person applying for the license. |
21 | (2) The commission may promulgate regulations to |
22 | implement this subsection. |
23 | Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |
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