LD 27 — An Act to Allow the Use of Crossbows During the Archery Season on Deer
This bill allows crossbows to be used during the regular archery-only deer hunting season.
LD 27 Crossbow
LD 79, An Act to Protect Shooting Ranges
This bill allows the discharge of a firearm on a sport shooting range that is within 100 yards of a building if the sport shooting range was established and in regular operation prior to the erection of the building.
LD 79, An Act to Protect Shooting Ranges
LD 85 — An Act to Establish a Sales Tax Exemption and an Income Tax Deduction for the Purchase of Firearms Safety Devices
This bill provides a sales tax exemption for the purchase of firearm safety devices 11 and an income tax deduction of up to $250 for the purchase of a safe or lockbox for 12 securing firearms.
LD 85 Safe bill in taxation
LD 175 — An Act to Extend the deer hunting by 2 Saturdays
This bill extends the end of the regular firearm deer hunting season by 2 Saturdays.
LD 175, An Act to Extend the Deer Hunting Season by 2 Saturdays
LD 188 — An Act to Provide for Expanded Muzzle-loading-only Deer Hunting Season
This bill requires that muzzle-loading season on deer extends for 12 hunting days immediately following the regular deer hunting season instead of being determined by the commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.
LD 188, An Act to Provide for an Expanded Muzzle-loading-only Deer Hunting Season
LD 190 — An Act to Provide Antlerless Deer Permits to Senior Resident Lifetime License Holders
This bill provides that a person 65 years of age or older who possesses a valid senior resident lifetime hunting license must receive a permit to lawfully take an antlerless deer in any part of the state open to the taking of antlerless deer.
LD 190, An Act to Provide Antlerless Deer Permits to Senior Resident Lifetime License Holders
LD 265 — An Act to Increase Opportunities for Hunters, Anglers and Sporting Camps by Extending the Seasons on Upland Game
This bill amends the general hunting season provisions to direct the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to extend the open seasons on upland game by one additional day, the last Saturday of September, annually. It defines the term “upland game” as snowshoe hare, gray squirrel, ring-necked pheasant, ruffed grouse and bobwhite quail.
LD 265, an Act to Increase Opportunities for Hunters, Anglers and Sporting Camps
LD 275 — An Act to Change the Bag Limits on Wild Turkey
This bill requires the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to double the bag limits on wild turkey in effect on January 1, 2018. It also requires the commissioner to submit a report by January 1, 2020 and annually thereafter, that includes recommendations regarding bag limits on wild turkey. It gives the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over Inland Fisheries and Wildlife matters authority to report out a bill based on the report.
LD 313 — An Act to Increase Access to Moose and Doe Permits for Combat-injured Veterans
This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would increase access to moose and doe permits for the rehabilitation of combat-injured veterans.
LD 321 — An Act to Ensure the Continuation of the Landowner Relations Program
This bill provides funding to the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to allow the department through the landowner relations program to improve relationships or maintain good relationships between landowners and outdoor recreationists.
LD 337 — An Act to Start a Spring Bear Hunting Season
This bill amends the law on open and closed seasons on bear to direct the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to establish a spring bear hunting season.
LD 617, An Act To Increase to 3 the Number of Youth Deer Hunting Days
This bill authorizes the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to establish 2 additional youth deer hunting days, the Monday and Tuesday following the last Saturday of the regular firearms season on deer, to the current youth deer hunting day, which occurs on the Saturday preceding the residents-only Saturday of the regular hunting season.
LD 617, An Act To Increase to 3 the Number of Youth Deer Hunting days
LD 638 — An Act to Legalize the Use of Supplemental Minerals to Assist with Wildlife Nutrition
This bill allows a person to place supplemental minerals for deer from March 1st to July 31st if the supplemental minerals are placed on that person’s own land, or on another person’s land with the other person’s oral or written permission, and the supplemental minerals do not contain any grain or food products.
LD 638, An Act To Legalize the Use of Supplemental Minerals to Assist with Wildlife Nutrition
LD 638 Gerry’s article
LD 649 — An Act to Enhance Collaboration Among State Agencies
This bill directs all state agencies and in particular the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, the Department of Marine Resources and the Department of Economic and Community Development to collaborate with the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to implement the landowner relations program. This bill directs the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to organize the collaboration to distribute as evenly as practicable the burden experienced by the various agencies arising from the public use of private lands.
LD 650 — An Act to Strengthen Maine’s Landowner Relation Program
This bill provides ongoing funding for 5 additional Deputy Game Warden positions and associated costs in the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.