Bill Text: WV HB4871 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: To allow youth and handicapped hunters to harvest a buck deer or doe during youth/handicapped special hunts
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-17 - To House Agriculture and Natural Resources [HB4871 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB4871-Introduced.html
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 4871
By Delegates Horst, Bridges, Phillips, Crouse, Hite, Maynor, Hardy, Mazzocchi, Howell, Clark, and Kump
[Introduced January 17, 2024; Referred
to the Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources then Government Organization ]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §20-2-46n, relating to allowing youths and those carrying a Class Q special hunting permit to take antlered deer.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
Article 2. Wildlife Resources
§20-2-46n. Allowance for youths and Class Q special hunting permit carriers to take an antlered deer.
A youth participating in the "Special Youth Deer Season" as that term is defined in 58 CSR 45, or a person carrying a Class Q special hunting permit, shall be allowed to take one deer of any type, including antlered deer.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow youths and those carrying a Class Q special hunting permit to take antlered deer.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
