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Senate clears committee report for bill letting hunters pursue wounded deer after hours
Summary
The Senate adopted committee amendments and advanced Senate Bill 100, which would let someone who wounded a deer during legal hunting hours pursue and humanely kill the deer after legal hours under regulations the Department of Natural Resources must adopt.
The Maryland Senate on the floor advanced Senate Bill 100, which would allow a hunter who wounds a deer during legal hunting hours to pursue and kill that deer after legal hunting hours under rules set by the Department of Natural Resources.
Senator Bailey, the bill sponsor, told the chamber the change is intended to allow humane dispatch of wounded deer and to permit DNR to write regulations governing how and when after-hours pursuit may occur. "So the whole purpose of the bill is to allow…
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