HB334 Alabama 2022 Session

Updated Apr 1, 2022

House Bill

In Committee

Current Status

Regular Session 2022

Session

1

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Tommy Hanes Representative
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2022
Title: Commercial fishing, paddlefish season, license from Conservation and Natural Resources Dept., regulation, fines
Description: This bill would require the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to issue not less than 40 licenses for paddlefishing on the Tennessee River, the Alabama River, and the Tombigbee River for a season to run from December to April 30.
The bill would provide for the cost of the licenses, for the regulation of fishing for paddlefish by nets, for the processing of paddlefish roe, and for criminal penalties.
Although this bill would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds, the bill is excluded from further requirements and application under Amendment 621, as amended by Amendment 890, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, because the bill defines a new crime or amends the definition of an existing crime.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. 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 the amendment.
Subjects: Game and Fish

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Agriculture and Forestry