House File 508 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 508 BY ARNOLD , BAUDLER , DOLECHECK , HUSEMAN , CHAMBERS , ALONS , and SCHULTZ (COMPANION TO SF 83 BY DEARDEN) A BILL FOR An Act allowing the establishment of an open season for hunting 1 mourning doves. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 1192YH (6) 84 av/nh

H.F. 508 Section 1. Section 481A.48, subsection 1, Code 2011, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 1. No A person, except as otherwise provided by law, shall 3 not willfully disturb, pursue, shoot, kill, take or attempt 4 to take or have in possession any of the following game birds 5 or animals except within the open season established by the 6 commission: Gray or fox squirrel, bobwhite quail, cottontail 7 or jackrabbit, duck, snipe, pheasant, goose, woodcock, 8 partridge, mourning dove, coot, rail, ruffed grouse, wild 9 turkey, pigeons, or deer. The seasons, bag limits, possession 10 limits, and locality shall be established by the department or 11 commission under the authority of sections 456A.24 , 481A.38 , 12 and 481A.39 . 13 EXPLANATION 14 This bill authorizes the natural resource commission to 15 establish an open season for hunting mourning doves. 16 -1- LSB 1192YH (6) 84 av/nh 1/ 1