Senate Study Bill 1220 SENATE FILE BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT BILL BY CHAIRPERSON BLACK) 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 2477SC 82 4 av/gg/14 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 481A.1, subsection 20, Code 2007, 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 1 14 animals. As fur=bearing animals, black bears and cougars may 1 15 be taken legally only during an open hunting season 1 16 established by the natural resource commission. 1 17 LSB 2477SC 82 1 18 av:nh/gg/14