Senate File 2065 - Introduced SENATE FILE 2065 BY CHAPMAN A BILL FOR An Act relating to the issuance of reduced-fee deer hunting 1 licenses to certain landowners and tenants and their 2 families. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 5407XS (3) 86 av/nh

S.F. 2065 Section 1. Section 483A.24, subsection 2, paragraph d, Code 1 2016, is amended to read as follows: 2 d. In addition to the free deer hunting licenses received 3 pursuant to paragraph “c” , an owner of a farm unit or a 4 member of the owner’s family and the tenant or a member of the 5 tenant’s family may purchase a deer hunting license for any 6 option offered to paying deer hunting licensees. An owner of a 7 farm unit or a member of the owner’s family and the tenant or a 8 member of the tenant’s family may also purchase two additional 9 antlerless deer hunting licenses which are valid only on the 10 farm unit for a fee of ten dollars each. The reduced-fee deer 11 hunting licenses issued pursuant to this paragraph shall be 12 valid and may be used during any deer hunting season. 13 EXPLANATION 14 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 15 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 16 This bill provides that when an owner or tenant of a 17 farm unit or a member of that person’s family purchases a 18 reduced-fee antlerless deer hunting license for use on that 19 person’s farm unit, the license may be used to hunt deer during 20 any deer hunting season. Currently, such reduced-fee licenses 21 are valid during only one specified deer hunting season. 22 -1- LSB 5407XS (3) 86 av/nh 1/ 1