House File 2455 - Reprinted HOUSE FILE 2455 BY COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES (SUCCESSOR TO HF 657) (SUCCESSOR TO HF 363) (As Amended and Passed by the House March 4, 2020 ) A BILL FOR An Act allowing the use of a leashed dog to track and retrieve 1 a wounded deer and providing a penalty. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 HF 2455 (3) 88 js/rn/md

H.F. 2455 Section 1. NEW SECTION . 481A.56A Retrieval of wounded deer 1 by leashed dogs. 2 A person having a valid hunting license and a valid deer 3 hunting license who has wounded a deer while hunting may use 4 a dog to track and retrieve the wounded deer. A dog being 5 used for tracking a wounded deer and a person using a dog for 6 tracking a wounded deer shall both be trained in deer blood 7 tracking. Any person using a dog for tracking wounded deer 8 must maintain physical control of the dog at all times during 9 the search by means of a maximum fifty-foot lead attached to 10 the dog’s collar or harness. The person may dispatch the deer 11 using a legal method of take authorized by the person’s deer 12 hunting license. A person shall not use that method of take 13 to hunt, wound, or kill any animal other than the deer that 14 the hunter is tracking, except in self-defense. Using a dog 15 to track a wounded deer on private property is permissible at 16 any hour with consent of the property owner. A person using a 17 dog to track a wounded deer outside of legal deer hunting hours 18 shall not be in possession of a firearm or archery device. 19 The commission shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to 20 implement this section. 21 Sec. 2. Section 805.8B, subsection 3, Code 2020, is amended 22 by adding the following new paragraph: 23 NEW PARAGRAPH . r. For violations of section 481A.56A, the 24 scheduled fine is two hundred fifty dollars. 25 -1- HF 2455 (3) 88 js/rn/md 1/ 1