Bill Text - SB235 (2025)

Enabling funds from the Pitman-Robertson Act to be spent by the fish and game department on threatened and endangered species in New Hampshire.


Revision: Jan. 23, 2025, 3:51 p.m.

SB 235  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0371

08/05

 

SENATE BILL 235

 

AN ACT enabling funds from the Pitman-Robertson Act to be spent by the fish and game department on threatened and endangered species in New Hampshire.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Sullivan, Dist 18; Sen. Fenton, Dist 10; Sen. Altschiller, Dist 24; Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Sen. Rosenwald, Dist 13; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21; Rep. Darby, Hills. 11; Rep. Ouellet, Coos 3; Rep. Potucek, Rock. 13

 

COMMITTEE: Energy and Natural Resources

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill enables funds from the Pitman-Robertson Act to be spent by the fish and game department on threatened and endangered species in New Hampshire.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0371

08/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT enabling funds from the Pitman-Robertson Act to be spent by the fish and game department on threatened and endangered species in New Hampshire.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Limitation on Certain Funds; Pitman Robertson Funds.  Amend RSA 212-A:15 to read as follows:

212-A:15 Limitation on Certain Funds. On the effective date of this chapter with the exception of the expenditures that are then authorized from the fish and game fund, no funds used to carry out the provisions of this chapter shall be derived from license fees of hunters, fishermen, or trappers [or from taxes on the sale of the equipment to hunters, fishermen or trappers] unless the species for which the funds are expended have been legally hunted, fished or trapped within the previous 5-year period.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.