Representative Grama presents technical fish-and-wildlife corrections; committee discusses snaring penalties, air guns and enforcement of water‑use rules

Representative Grama told the Natural Resources & Energy committee that H.31 principally contains technical corrections to align statute with Fish and Wildlife Board rules and update obsolete language, with one substantive change: raising the penalty points for illegally snaring animals from 10 points to 20 points.

“It's really mostly technical changes,” Representative Grama said as he introduced H.31, and he flagged the snaring penalty as the bill’s main substantive provision: moving snaring from a 10‑point violation (which generally allows continued hunting) to a 20‑point violation that can lead to loss of license.

Grama also described draft language that had been proposed to add certain modern projectile devices — described in committee as air guns — to a statutory list that governs firearms carriage in vehicles. The committee removed that language before crossover because the draft wording lacked a clear statutory definition and…