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Committee adopts amendment to clarify rules for hunting from motorized vehicles, citing landowner permission and enforcement clarity
Summary
The House Energy and Natural Resources Committee adopted an amendment to House Bill 15‑98 to clarify when landowners or people with written permission may drive on private land while hunting. Supporters said the change improves private‑property clarity and enforcement; a Game and Fish official said the agency is neutral.
Representative Cynthia Schreiberbeck, sponsor of House Bill 15‑98, told the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee she brought the bill to clarify an obscure section of code and offered an amended version she called clearer for landowners, hunters and enforcement officials. "I was not familiar with the section of code we're gonna look at...it was Greek," she said, adding the amendment would replace the original bill with clearer language (Representative Cynthia Schreiberbeck, State Representative, District 25).
The bill and its adopted amendment (25.13030.01001) clarify when a landowner or a person with written permission may drive on privately held land while hunting and narrow uncertainty around prosecution of off‑trail driving. Supporter Mike Svalison,…
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