2000 Regular Session

HOUSE BILL 656

CHAPTER NUMBER: 627 File Code: Hunting and Fishing
Sponsored By:
Delegates Weir and Guns
Entitled:
Natural Resources - Wild Waterfowl - Blind Sites

Synopsis:

Prohibiting a person from possessing shotgun shells that are loaded with specified shot under specified circumstances; providing that persons that have the written consent of adjoining landowners to achieve 250 yards of continuous shoreline may erect an offshore stationary blind or blind site; allowing a riparian landowner who owns less than 250 yards of continuous shoreline to establish an offshore blind site if no other shoreline is licensed within 125 yards of the blind site; etc.

History by Legislative Date

House Action
2/10
First Reading Environmental Matters
2/11
Hearing 2/15 at 1:00 p.m.
2/22
Favorable with Amendments Report by Environmental Matters
2/23
Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
2/25
Third Reading Passed (131-1)
3/30
House Refuses to Concur - Senate Amendments
4/9
Returned Passed
5/18
Signed by the Governor Chapter 627
Senate Action
2/28
First Reading Economic and Environmental Affairs
3/8
Hearing 3/21 at 1:00 p.m.
3/28
Favorable Report by Economic and Environmental Affairs
3/29
Favorable Report Adopted
Floor Amendment (Senator Colburn) Adopted (28-17)
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
3/30
Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
4/6
Motion Recede (Senator Frosh) Adopted
Motion Reconsider Third Reading (Senator Frosh) Adopted
Motion Reconsider Floor Amendment (Senator Colburn) (Senator Frosh) Adopted
Floor Amendment (Senator Colburn) Withdrawn
Third Reading Passed (45-0)
Senate Recede
Sponsored by:
Delegate Michael H. Weir, District 6
Delegate Ronald A. Guns, District 36
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
BIRDS
GUNS
HUNTING -see also- TRAPPING
LICENSES -see also- ALCOHOLIC BEV LIC; DRIVERS' LICENSES
NATURAL RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF
REAL PROPERTY
WATER
WEAPONS -see also- GUNS
Bill affects the following Statutes:
Natural Resources
( 10-602 , 10-607 , 10-609 )

Documents:

Bill Text: First Reading (PDF), Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)
Amendments:
House
Number: 090310/1 (PDF)     Offered on: February 23, 2000   at: 10:18 a.m.     Status: Adopted
Senate
Number: 603029/1 (PDF)     Offered on: April 8, 2000   at: 1:16 p.m.     Status: Withdrawn
Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
February 25, 2000: Third Reading Passed (131-1)
Senate
March 29, 2000: Floor Amendment (Colburn) {603029/1 Adopted (28-17)
March 30, 2000: Third Reading Passed (47-0)
April 6, 2000: Third Reading Passed (45-0)