The Pennsylvania state legislature is considering enacting a law (HB 2073) that would subject Pennsylvania Game Commission actions to the Independent Regulatory Review Commission. More specifically, passage of this bill will remove the ability of the
Game Commission to set scientifically and biologically sound seasons and
bag limits for all wildlife. Decisions on deer season will be delayed
if this passes, as is the intent. However, every other action or
decision the Game Commission makes will also be delayed. Even decisions
made between meetings to protect or preserve wildlife due to disease
outbreak, land deals, and mineral and gas leases, as well as other
actions and decisions authorized by current law and authority.
The
bill seeks to require that all game commission rules and regulation go
through the Independent Regulatory Review Commission. This process well
known to take two years for actions to pass muster of the committee.
HB 2073 will impose an almost impossible bar to what is otherwise well
managed agency tasked by the legislature to manage the wildlife in this
state. That bar to proper management is borne with the intent to do
exactly that: hinder, confound, and remove authority to the game
commission in decision that are of the immediate or timely nature.
Source: PA state legislature
Friday, September 28, 2012
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