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Committee clears technical amendment to hunting-license fee language
Summary
A technical amendment to H.928 clarified that provisional big-game license fees must match the prevailing fee for the same type of animal, avoiding an unintended reference to a low $5 bear-tag fee; the committee reported the amendment friendly by voice consent.
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.
