2025 Regular Session SB 769

• Bill Title: Relating to county elections concerning methods of taking wildlife; providing for criminal sentence reduction that requires approval by a two-thirds majority.

Catchline/Summary

Digest: The Act makes it lawful to use dogs to hunt cougars in a county if county voters approve. The Act tells the county to notify an agency. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.0).

Provides that a county is exempt from the applicability of a statute banning the use of dogs to hunt or pursue cougars if voters approve a county measure proposed by initiative petition or referred to the people by the governing body of the county.

• Fiscal Impact: May Have Fiscal Impact, But No Statement Yet Issued
• Revenue Impact: May Have Revenue Impact, But No Statement Yet Issued
• Current Location: In Senate Committee
• Current Committee: Senate Committee On Natural Resources and Wildfire