2025 bills / H.B. 309
H.B. 309 Wildlife 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 changes Utah's wildlife laws in several areas, including rules on night hunting of nonprotected wildlife and access to wildlife management areas. It also sets license requirements for people serving on the Wildlife Board or regional advisory councils, and changes how the Department of Agriculture and Food handles livestock damage and big game protection.
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Official description
- modifies definitions
- addresses night hunting of nonprotected wildlife
- imposes requirements for holding a hunting or combination license for service on the Wildlife Board or a regional advisory council
- addresses definition of and access to wildlife management areas
- modifies provisions concerning the Department of Agriculture and Food's activities related to livestock depredation and big game protection
- addresses compensation for damage to livestock
- corrects a definition of "big game"
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 309 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 309 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
- 11 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 1 no, 3 absentHouse Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 63 yes, 6 no, 6 absentFinal House vote · Feb 26, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 2 no, 2 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how