Committee clears technical amendment to hunting-license fee language

During opening business the committee considered a technical placement amendment to H.928 that clarifies how provisional big-game license fees should be set.

Representative Charlie Kimell explained the change as a clarification of intent: the amendment makes explicit that when the department issues a provisional license fee it must use the prevailing fee for the same type of animal rather than the absolute lowest fee on a list (which, as Kimell noted, could unintentionally point to a $5 bear tag). "That's the whole thing," Kimell said, describing the language as intended to ensure parity: "if it's a deer, it's 23 bucks; if it's a moose, it's 100 bucks."

Representative Campfield moved that the committee find the amendment friendly and Representative OD seconded. The chair acknowledged assent and the amendment was reported as friendly by voice consent; there was no substantive opposition on the record.

The amendment is technical and would not change the substantive fee schedule; it aims to align the provisional-fee authorization with the committee’s intent to match like-for-like fees for the same animal types.