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Committee approves electronic deer-harvest reporting rule but falls short of two-thirds to introduce committee bill
Summary
The subcommittee approved regulations implementing Act 65 (2023) requiring electronic harvest reporting for deer, but a 6-3 vote failed to reach the two-thirds threshold needed to introduce a committee joint resolution; DNR said hunters reported roughly 175,000 deer using the system and estimates statewide population at about 700,000.
The House Regulations and Administrative Procedures subcommittee approved a regulation to implement electronic deer-harvest reporting required by Act 65 of 2023, but the committee's 6-3 approval did not meet the two-thirds threshold necessary to introduce a committee joint resolution, leaving the regulation without the expedited committee bill route.
Charles Ruth, wildlife biologist and supervisor of DNR's big-game program, and Emily Cope, deputy director for wildlife and freshwater fisheries at DNR, told the subcommittee the reporting system expands the department's existing electronic reporting (used previously for turkey and bear) to deer. Ruth said hunters reported about 175,000 deer during the most recent season after the rule was filed on an emergency basis to make the system available for the 2024 season. Ruth described the reporting data as a management tool that feeds a population…
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