Senate File 82SENATE FILE BY DEARDEN Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act allowing the establishment of an open season for hunting 2 mourning doves. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1640SS 82 5 av/gg/14 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 481A.48, subsection 1, Code 2007, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 1. NoA person, except as otherwise provided by law, shall 1 4 not willfully disturb, pursue, shoot, kill, take or attempt to 1 5 take or have in possession any of the following game birds or 1 6 animals except within the open season established by the 1 7 commission: Gray or fox squirrel, bobwhite quail, cottontail 1 8 or jackrabbit, duck, snipe, pheasant, goose, woodcock, 1 9 partridge, mourning dove, coot, rail, ruffed grouse, wild 1 10 turkey, pigeons, or deer. The seasons, bag limits, possession 1 11 limits, and locality shall be established by the department or 1 12 commission under the authority of sections 456A.24, 481A.38, 1 13 and 481A.39. 1 14 EXPLANATION 1 15 This bill authorizes the natural resource commission to 1 16 establish an open season for hunting mourning doves. 1 17 LSB 1640SS 82 1 18 av:nh/gg/14.1