HF 326 (LSB 1928HV (1) 88)

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 actions involving eagles, and making penalties applicable.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 481A.130, subsection 1, paragraphs a and c, Code 2019, are amended to read as follows:
   a.  For each eagle, elk, antelope, buffalo, or moose, two thousand five hundred dollars.
   c.  For each bird, other than an eagle, or animal or the raw pelt or plumage of such bird or animal for which damages are not otherwise prescribed, fifty dollars.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   Current law requires a person convicted of unlawfully selling, taking, catching, killing, injuring, destroying, or having in their possession an eagle to reimburse the state in the amount of $50, in addition to other penalties. This bill requires a person convicted of such a violation involving an eagle to reimburse the state for assessed damages in the amount of $2,500, in addition to other penalties.