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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| SENATE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY BAKER, VANCE, ALLOWAY, BREWSTER, BROWNE, BRUBAKER, COSTA, ERICKSON, FERLO, FOLMER, FONTANA, MENSCH, RAFFERTY, SCARNATI, SOLOBAY, WASHINGTON, WAUGH, D. WHITE, WOZNIAK, YAW AND YUDICHAK, MARCH 16, 2011 |
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| REFERRED TO GAME AND FISHERIES, MARCH 16, 2011 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated |
2 | Statutes, in hunting and furtaking licenses, further |
3 | providing for resident license and fee exemptions for |
4 | deployed Pennsylvania National Guard members. |
5 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
6 | hereby enacts as follows: |
7 | Section 1. Section 2706(f) and (g) of Title 34 of the |
8 | Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read: |
9 | § 2706. Resident license and fee exemptions. |
10 | * * * |
11 | (f) Pennsylvania National Guard hunting licenses.-- |
12 | (1) Pennsylvania National Guard hunting licenses shall |
13 | be issued by the commission or county treasurer to any person |
14 | otherwise eligible for a resident hunting license in this |
15 | Commonwealth who provides documentation that within the |
16 | previous 24 months the person was deployed overseas as a |
17 | member of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard or Air |
18 | 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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