Kansas 2025-2026 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2147 Compare Versions

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1	1	Session of 2025
2	2	HOUSE BILL No. 2147
3	3	By Committee on Federal and State Affairs
4	4	Requested by Representative W. Carpenter
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6	6	AN ACT concerning wildlife; requiring the Kansas department of wildlife
7	7	and parks to offer discounted resident senior combination hunting and
8	8	fishing passes to residents of this state who are 65 years of age or older;
9	9	removing the expiration date for Kansas kids lifetime combination
10	10	hunting and fishing licenses; requiring the fee for such pass or license
11	11	to be an amount not to exceed what is required for such pass or license
12	12	to qualify as a paid hunting license or paid fishing license under federal
13	13	law; amending K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 32-9,101 and repealing the existing
14	14	section; reviving and amending K.S.A. 32-9,100 and repealing the
15	15	revived section; also repealing K.S.A. 32-9,100, as amended by section
16	16	64 of chapter 7 of the 2023 Session Laws of Kansas.
17	17	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
18	18	Section 1. K.S.A. 32-9,100 is hereby revived and amended to read as
19	19	follows: 32-9,100. On and after January 1, 2013 July 1, 2020, the Kansas
20	20	department of wildlife, and parks and tourism shall offer a resident senior
21	21	combination hunting and fishing pass to residents of this state who are 65
22	22	years of age or more. The fee for such pass shall be an amount not to
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25	25	/8 the fee for a general combination lifetime hunting and fishing
26	26	license. The provisions of this section shall expire on June 30, 2020 what
27	27	is required for such pass to qualify as a paid hunting license pursuant to
28	28	16 U.S.C. § 669 et seq., or a paid fishing license pursuant to 16 U.S.C. §
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30	30	Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 32-9,101 is hereby amended to read as
31	31	follows: 32-9,101. (a) (1) The secretary of wildlife and parks shall issue
32	32	and make available a Kansas kids lifetime combination hunting and
33	33	fishing license to any child who is a resident, as defined in K.S.A. 32-701,
34	34	and amendments thereto, and:
35	35	(A) Five years of age or younger, upon payment of a license fee that
36	36	shall not exceed $300; or
37	37	(B) six or seven years of age, upon payment of a license fee that shall
38	38	not exceed $500.
39	39	(2) The fee for such license shall be an amount not to exceed what is
40	40	required for such pass to qualify as a paid hunting license pursuant to 16
41	41	U.S.C. § 669 et seq., or a paid fishing license pursuant to 16 U.S.C. § 777
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77	77	et seq.
78	78	(3) Such license fee may be paid on behalf of such child.
79	79	(b) The secretary of wildlife and parks shall report annually to the
80	80	house of representatives agriculture and natural resources budget
81	81	committee and the senate committee on agriculture and natural resources,
82	82	or the successor of such committees, on the number of such Kansas kids
83	83	lifetime combination hunting and fishing licenses issued by the Kansas
84	84	department of wildlife and parks.
85	85	(c) The provisions of this section shall expire on July 1, 2032.
86	86	Sec. 3. K.S.A. 32-9,100, as revived and amended by section 1 of this
87	87	act, K.S.A. 32-9,100, as amended by section 64 of chapter 7 of the 2023
88	88	Session Laws of Kansas, and K.S.A. 2024 Supp. 32-9,101 are hereby
89	89	repealed.
90	90	Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
91	91	publication in the statute book.
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