House File 326 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 326 BY COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES (SUCCESSOR TO HF 156) A BILL FOR An Act relating to damages assessed for engaging in prohibited 1 actions involving eagles, and making penalties applicable. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 1928HV (1) 88 js/rn

H.F. 326 Section 1. Section 481A.130, subsection 1, paragraphs a and 1 c, Code 2019, are amended to read as follows: 2 a. For each eagle, elk, antelope, buffalo, or moose, two 3 thousand five hundred dollars. 4 c. For each bird , other than an eagle, or animal or the raw 5 pelt or plumage of such bird or animal for which damages are 6 not otherwise prescribed, fifty dollars. 7 EXPLANATION 8 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 9 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 10 Current law requires a person convicted of unlawfully 11 selling, taking, catching, killing, injuring, destroying, or 12 having in their possession an eagle to reimburse the state in 13 the amount of $50, in addition to other penalties. This bill 14 requires a person convicted of such a violation involving an 15 eagle to reimburse the state for assessed damages in the amount 16 of $2,500, in addition to other penalties. 17 -1- LSB 1928HV (1) 88 js/rn 1/ 1