House File 2142 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 2142 BY ARNOLD A BILL FOR An Act relating to bag limits during regular gun and late 1 muzzleloader deer hunting seasons. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 5590YH (2) 84 av/nh

H.F. 2142 Section 1. Section 483A.8, subsection 2, Code Supplement 1 2011, is amended to read as follows: 2 2. a. The A deer hunting license shall be accompanied by 3 a tag designed to be used only once. When a deer is taken, 4 the deer shall be tagged and the tag shall be dated. The tag 5 shall be attached to the carcass of a deer taken within fifteen 6 minutes of the time the deer carcass is located after being 7 taken, or before the carcass is moved to be transported by any 8 means from the place where the deer was taken, whichever occurs 9 first. For each antlered deer taken, the tag shall be affixed 10 to the deer’s antlers. 11 b. During regular gun seasons and the late muzzleloader 12 season, the bag limit for a hunting party is one deer for each 13 hunter in the party who has a valid transportation tag. The 14 possession limit is one deer per license. For purposes of 15 this paragraph, “hunting party” means two or more persons who 16 each have a deer hunting license and tag, and who are hunting 17 together. For purposes of this paragraph, “possession” means 18 that the deer is in the possession of the person whose license 19 number matches the number of the transportation tag on the 20 carcass of the deer. 21 EXPLANATION 22 This bill provides that during regular gun and the late 23 muzzleloader deer hunting seasons, the daily bag limit for a 24 hunting party is one deer for each hunter in the party who has 25 a valid transportation tag. The possession limit is one deer 26 per deer hunting license and the deer must be in the possession 27 of the person whose license number matches the number of the 28 transportation tag on the carcass of the deer. 29 Currently, the natural resource commission’s administrative 30 rules only allow such bag limits for hunting parties during 31 regular gun deer hunting seasons. During all other seasons, 32 the deer must be shot and tagged only by the person in whose 33 name the license and tag was issued. For purposes of the bill, 34 a “hunting party” is two or more persons who each have a deer 35 -1- LSB 5590YH (2) 84 av/nh 1/ 2

H.F. 2142 hunting license and tag, and who are hunting together. 1 -2- LSB 5590YH (2) 84 av/nh 2/ 2