Under existing law, by regulation of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, as it relates to hunting deer on private lands, there is a rebuttable presumption that any bait or feed located beyond 100 yards from the hunter and not within the line of sight of the hunter is not a lure, attraction, or enticement to, on, or over the areas where the hunter is attempting to kill or take the deer.
This bill would provide for the voluntary feeding of game by spincast, broadcast, or any other container feeder at any time during the year and would require permits for use of each feeder.
This bill would not affect the ability of a person to operate a feeder for purposes other than hunting game.
The bill would set the amount of the fee for a permit for each feeder and provide for the disposition of the funds.
The bill would also provide penalties for violations.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in Amendment 621.
Indefinitely Postponed
Motion to Carry Over as Unfinished Business adopted Voice Vote
Sanford motion to Carry Over Lost Roll Call 962
Motion to Adopt Lost Roll Call 961
Sanford Amendment Offered
Third Reading Carried Over
Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair
Whatley motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
Sanford motion to Carry Over adopted Voice Vote
Hightower motion to Reconsider the vote by which the bill was read its third reading adopted Voice Vote
Hightower motion to Reconsider the vote by which bill LOST adopted Roll Call 439.
Third Reading Carried Over
Motion to Adopt lost Roll Call 431
Third Reading Lost
Whatley motion to Carry Over adopted Voice Vote
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 347
Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry first Substitute Offered
Third Reading Carried Over
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry
Source: Alabama Legislature