Coyote Control Incentive Program House Bill No. 1534 session 2013

[uncle buck]

My brother Tom told me about a PROPOSED house bill to pay people $25.00 for each coyote they harvest in Pa if they have a Hunting license and furtakers license...they will set up a pot of money each year:  $700,000.00 (to a special account)  to pay hunters and furtakers if you harvest a coyote..  PPHA members might want to support this?...I could make predator hunting take off in Pa.  Also why not get another $25.00 for harvesting a coyote..  That's just the way it is..Thank you Tom Monko for telling me about this..

House Bill No. 1534 Session  2013

[Bowman66]

Sounds great if it passes.

[Misterjake23]

I wonder why they are requireing a furtakes license since you don't need one to harvest coyote's in PA???

[Lookn4Fur]

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[swarter2]

I wonder why they are requireing a furtakes license since you don't need one to harvest coyote's in PA???

It should be hunting and/or furtakers license

[Lookn4Fur]

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL
No.   1534   Session of
2013

INTRODUCED BY PEIFER, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER, COHEN, DENLINGER, EMRICK, EVERETT, FARINA, FLECK, FLYNN, GINGRICH, C. HARRIS, HEFFLEY, HESS, JAMES, KORTZ, MILLARD, MOUL, READSHAW, SWANGER AND TOOHIL, JUNE 17, 2013

REFERRED TO COMMITEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, JUNE 17, 2013

AN ACT
 
Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for a coyote control incentive program.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1.  Chapter 5 of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subchapter to read:
SUBCHAPTER F
COYOTE CONTROL INCENTIVE PROGRAM
Sec.
571.  Establishment.
572.  Account.
573.  Regulations.
§ 571.  Establishment.
The commission may create a coyote control incentive program to compensate properly licensed hunters and furtakers $25 for each coyote lawfully harvested.
§ 572.  Account.
(a)  Creation.--A special account is created within the Game Fund to fund payments under section 571 (relating to establishment) and a use under subsection (d).
(b)  Transfer.--The amount of $700,000 shall be annually transferred from the Game Fund to the special account for, except as provided under subsection (d), the coyote control incentive program.
(c)  Limit.--The total annual expenditures from the coyote control incentive program may not exceed the annual amount designated for the coyote control incentive program.
(d)  Remaining funds.--Funds remaining in the special account at the end of a fiscal year may be used for a purpose other than making a payment under section 571.
§ 573.  Regulations.
The commission shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of this subchapter.
Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

[Bowman66]

I better learn how to close the deal on some yotes fast now!

[Lifes2fun]

Note section D of the funding
Just another way for the GA to grab money from the PGC
If you want to hunt coyotes then do it because you love it
Not because you might get $25 for one

[Buckwheat]

Lifes2fun
Ya, that section D is bull shi##. All the study's ever done have shown bountys have never worked. Somebody just figured out a way to get money for some unknown reason we do not know about!

[Misterjake23]

     With a bountyof $25 for each coyote and putting in $700,000, according to my math, that means to exhaust the fund, there would have to be 28,000 coyotes killed!!

     Maybe I'm nieve and ignorant to PA's coyote population,  but do they think there are actually 28,000 coyotes in PA?

[jaspr1]

JMO...I hope this dies a quick death.

[Lookn4Fur]

Not only is there way more than 28,000 coyotes but Pennsylvanians harvest around 40,000 a year!  And it is still growing.

[bigben]

I agree with jaspr. It will be like mosquito creek weekend year round if it gets passed. Money makes people do things they shouldnt.

[Lookn4Fur]

I also agree.  Bounty's do not work.  Maybe I am selfish but I have enough predator hunters around me.  I don't want an increase of hunters just looking for a buck.  As previously stated, "hunt them because you love too".

[zekedogg]

JMO...I hope this dies a quick death.

I agree! This looks like a money grab for our legislators. Think about it. if there are 2000 yotes turned in at $25 a piece that $50,000.00 where's the other $650,000.00 going? What exactly does "Funds remaining in the special account at the end of a fiscal year may be used for a purpose other than making a payment under section 571" mean? Will that money go back to the game fund?