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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 1118 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5315 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2025 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 1118 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. REDDINGTON-HUGHES, 66th Dist. | |
| 15 | 15 | REP. ANDERSON, 62nd Dist. | |
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| 20 | 20 | AN ACT CONCERNING THE REGULATION AND CONTROL OF THE | |
| 21 | 21 | BLACK BEAR POPULATION IN THE STATE. | |
| 22 | 22 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 23 | 23 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 25 | 25 | That the general statutes be amended to require the Department of 1 | |
| 26 | 26 | Energy and Environmental Protection to: (1) Conduct a study, within 2 | |
| 27 | 27 | available resources, to estimate the population and growth rate of bears 3 | |
| 28 | 28 | in the state, and to estimate the biological and cultural carrying 4 | |
| 29 | 29 | capacities by region, and to update such estimates each year; (2) publish 5 | |
| 30 | 30 | regulations to prohibit the unintentional feeding of black bears; (3) 6 | |
| 31 | 31 | educate the public on proactive measures to prevent human-bear 7 | |
| 32 | 32 | conflict; and (4) establish a hunting season to maintain the bear 8 | |
| 33 | 33 | population within the biological and cultural carrying capacity in each 9 | |
| 34 | 34 | region of the state. 10 | |
| 35 | 35 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 36 | 36 | To establish a bear management framework intended to ensure a | |
| 37 | 37 | healthy bear population, minimize conflicts between bears and humans | |
| 38 | 38 | and allow for limited regulated hunting of black bear. |