ACSL Game Committee 02/09/06
Social Security Numbers and Recreational Licenses
U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, introduced S. 2249, the Sportsmen's Privacy Protection Act, which would repeal the federal mandate that requires states to collect Social Security numbers for recreational licenses (formally announced at the Eastern Outdoor Sports Show in Harrisburg, on Friday, February 10).
U.S. Representative Tim Murphy has signed on as a co-sponsor to H.R. 4144, the US House resolution to repeal the federal requirement to collect Social Security numbers on recreational licenses. Murphy joins Phil English, Melissa Hart, Tim Holden, and Todd Platts as sponsors.
Legislation -PA House
HB 2435 Tigue, Amends Title 34 (Game) further providing for: (b.1) Regular antlered deer hunting season.—Notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation to the contrary, the regular antlered deer hunting season shall be 15 consecutive calendar days in length beginning on the first Saturday following Thanksgiving and continuing for the next 14 calendar days including the two consecutive Sundays and ending at the conclusion of hunting hours on the third Saturday after Thanksgiving. The hunting hours for the regular antlered deer season shall be fixed by regulation of the commission. Introduced 2/7/06, Referred to Committee on Game and Fisheries
This bill legislatively establishes the dates of the regular antlered deer season (while attempting to enable Sunday antlered deer hunting). It is the job of the Game Commission to set “seasons and bag limits”, under it’s mandate to manage wildlife. It is bad precedent for the legislature to do so.
Game Commission
The Commissioners adopted regulatory language that extends the ban on recreational spotlighting during the regular firearms deer seasons and will include the late firearms deer season in Wildlife Management Unit 2B.
The Commissioners gave final approval to permit hunters to use crossbows for turkey seasons, starting in the 2006 spring gobbler season.
The Commissioners gave preliminary approval to allow hunters to use atlatls to harvest deer