Senate Study Bill 3196 SENATE FILE BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT BILL BY CO=CHAIRPERSON LUNDBY) Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act making black bears and cougars fur=bearing animals. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 6179XK 81 4 bp/gg/14 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 481A.1, subsection 20, Code 2005, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 20. "Fur=bearing animals" means the following which are 1 4 declared to be fur=bearing animals for the purpose of 1 5 regulation and protection under the Code: beaver, badger, 1 6 mink, otter, muskrat, raccoon, skunk, opossum, spotted skunk 1 7 or civet cat, weasel, black bear, cougar, coyote, bobcat, 1 8 wolf, groundhog, red fox, and gray fox. This chapter does not 1 9 apply to domesticated fur=bearing animals. 1 10 EXPLANATION 1 11 This bill adds black bears and cougars to the list of fur= 1 12 bearing animals. Currently black bears and cougars are not 1 13 addressed in the Code and as such are unprotected nongame. As 1 14 fur=bearing animals, black bears and cougars may be taken 1 15 legally only during an open hunting season established by the 1 16 natural resource commission. 1 17 LSB 6179XK 81 1 18 bp:nh/gg/14