LCO No. 3321 1 of 1 General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6234 January Session, 2025 LCO No. 3321 Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT Introduced by: REP. REDDINGTON -HUGHES, 66th Dist. REP. ANDERSON, 62nd Dist. AN ACT CONCERNING BLACK BEAR CONSERVATION AND THE REDUCTION OF PERSON TO BEAR CONFLICTS AND PREDATION OF WHITE-TAILED DEER BY BLACK BEARS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: That the general statutes be amended to require the Department of 1 Energy and Environmental Protection, within available resources, to 2 enact measures to promote black bear conservation, reduce human-bear 3 conflict and to reduce predation of white-tailed deer fawns by black 4 bears. 5 Statement of Purpose: To provide for protections from black bear predation of white-tailed deer fawns and reduce human -bear conflicts through certain conservation measures.