Wyoming legislation · 2025 General Session
Wyoming HB281: Landowner hunting coupons-hunts that harvest no animal.
Status: Failed, March 3, 2025
AN ACT relating to game and fish; requiring hunters to deliver landowner coupons to a landowner when using a landowner's property for hunting antelope, deer or elk; authorizing landowners to redeem landowner coupons whenever the majority of a hunt for antelope, deer or elk occurred on the landowner's property; and providing for an effective date.
What the bill says
An act relating to game and fish; requiring hunters to deliver landowner coupons to a landowner when using a landowner's property for hunting antelope, deer or elk; authorizing landowners to redeem landowner coupons whenever the majority of a hunt for antelope, deer or elk occurred on the landowner's property; and providing for an effective date.
From the introduced text:
AN ACT relating to game and fish; requiring hunters to deliver landowner coupons to a landowner when using a landowner's property for hunting antelope, deer or elk; authorizing landowners to redeem landowner coupons whenever the majority of a hunt for antelope, deer or elk occurred on the landowner's property; and providing for an effective date. Section 1. W.S. 23‐3‐105(b) is amended to payment to landowner; kill on federal or state land. (b) When hunting on a landowner's property, upon harvesting an antelope, deer or elk or at the conclusion of a hunt without harvesting an antelope, deer or elk, the landowner's coupon shall promptly be detached, dated, signed and delivered to the landowner on whose property the antelope, deer or elk was harvested or, if no antelope, deer or elk was harvested, on whose property a hunter utilized a hunting license for the majority of a hunting season. The landowner, on or before March 1 following the close of the hunting season for which the license was issued, shall deliver to the department the coupon and an affidavit that the antelope, deer or elk for which the coupon was delivered was killed on his land or that a hunter utilized a hunting license on his land for the majority of a hunting season if no antelope, deer or elk was …
Sponsors
- J.D. Williams (R, H02)
- John Winter (R, H28) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4
- : H No report prior to CoW Cutoff
- : H Introduced and Referred to H05 - Agriculture
- : Bill Number Assigned
- : H Received for Introduction
Subjects: Landowner hunting coupons-hunts that harvest no animal.
Common questions
- What is HB281?
- HB281 is a bill in the Wyoming Legislature (2025 General Session): Landowner hunting coupons-hunts that harvest no animal.
- What does HB281 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to game and fish; requiring hunters to deliver landowner coupons to a landowner when using a landowner's property for hunting antelope, deer or elk; authorizing landowners to redeem landowner coupons whenever the majority of a hunt for antelope, deer or elk occurred on the landowner's property; and providing for an effective date.
- What is the status of HB281?
- Failed as of March 3, 2025. Latest action: H:Died in Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to HR 5-4 (March 3, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB281?
- John Winter (R, H28), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for HB281?
- On the Wyoming Legislature website: https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2025/HB0281
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