2025 bills / H.B. 244
H.B. 244 Wildlife Management Area Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill directs the state to create a new wildlife management area called the Bear River Bay Waterfowl Management Area, with limits and requirements for how it is handled. It also removes some restrictions on impoundment structures and on regulating airboats and small watercraft in certain waterfowl areas, and requires an advisory committee for the Willard Spur area under certain circumstances.
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Official description
- directs the creation of a wildlife management area known as the Bear River Bay Waterfowl Management Area
- provides limits and requirements related to the Bear River Bay Waterfowl Management Area
- removes restrictions on impounding structures in certain waterfowl management areas
- removes prohibitions related to the regulation of airboats or small watercraft in certain waterfowl management areas
- requires the creation of an advisory committee for the Willard Spur Waterfowl Management Area under certain circumstances
- makes technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 244 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 244 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 10 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 6, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 6, 2025Who voted how
- 67 yes, 0 no, 8 absentFinal House vote · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 27 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how