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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 884
BY REPRESENTATIVES ST. GERMAIN, DOVE, AND HARRISON AND SENATOR
N. GAUTREAUX
WILDLIFE & FISHERIES DEP: Authorizes the issuance of a restricted hunter education
certificate for developmentally disabled hunters
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 56:699.5, relative to hunter education; to provide for exceptions2
to the requirement for hunter education; and to provide for related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. R.S. 56:699.5 is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:5
ยง699.5. Firearm and hunter education requirement6
A. No person shall hunt with a firearm unless that person has first been7
issued a certificate of satisfactory completion of a firearm and hunter education8
course taught or approved by the department, or possesses a valid hunting license9
issued by the department. However, a person under sixteen years of age may hunt10
without such certificate if he is accompanied by and is under the direct supervision11
of a person who is eighteen years of age or older and has a valid hunting license or12
proof of successful completion of a hunter safety education course approved by the13
department.14
B. A person who is developmentally disabled and unable to successfully15
complete a hunter safety course may be issued a restricted hunter education16
certificate that permits him to hunt, if he is accompanied by and is under the direct17
supervision of a person who is eighteen years of age or older and has a valid hunting18
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approved by the department. Documentation of the developmental disability from1
a licensed medical doctor shall be presented prior to the issuance of a restricted2
hunter education certificate.3
C. For the purposes of this Subsection Section, "direct supervision" means4
that the person being supervised shall be within a normal audible voice proximity5
and in direct line of sight of the supervising adult at all times while hunting.6
B. D. The commission may adopt rules to implement the provisions of this7
Section, including rules to define the circumstances that constitute a person being8
accompanied by and under the direct supervision of another.9
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
St. Germain HB No. 884
Abstract: Authorizes the issuance of a restricted hunter education certificate for
developmentally disabled hunters.
Present law prohibits any person from hunting without either completing a firearm and
hunter education course taught or approved by Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries or possessing
a valid hunting license. Excepts from this prohibition a person under 16 who is hunting
under the direct supervision of a person who is at least 18 and who has a valid hunting
license or who has passed the hunter safety education course.
Present law defines "direct supervision" to mean the person being supervised is within a
normal audible voice proximity and in the direct line of sight of the supervising adult at all
times while hunting.
Proposed law retains present law and authorizes the issuance of a restricted hunter education
certificate to a developmentally disabled person who is unable to successfully complete a
hunter safety course. Such permit allows a person to hunt if he is accompanied by and is
under the direct supervision of a person who is 18 years of age or older and has a valid
hunting license or proof of successful completion of a hunter safety education course.
Proposed law requires documentation of the developmental disability prior to the issuance
of a restricted hunter education certificate.
(Amends R.S. 56:699.5)