AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-241]
Amend 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 197, sec. 11, to direct the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to make the conservation easement acquisitions required to be made under the section instead of the Finance and Administration Cabinet; delete the provision requiring the Finance and Administration Cabinet to procure outside counsel; provide that the conservation easement transfers not be subject to KRS 382.850 provided that the conservation easements stipulate that they will not inhibit coal mining operations; allow the Department of Fish and Wildlife
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SB-241: AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 139) on 03/29/2023
You have voted SB-241: AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency..
AN ACT relating to fishing in public waters of the Commonwealth. [HB-452]
Create new section of KRS Chapter 150 to define terms; allow public access and unrestricted use for fishing along public waterbodies and waterways if access is not gained through private lands and the health and safety of the public or the habitat of aquatic or other wildlife is not placed at risk; prohibit persons from restricting, harassing, or otherwise prohibiting a person from fishing along public waterbodies and waterways; allow the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to promulgate administrative regulations to identify areas along public
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HB-452: AN ACT relating to fishing in public waters of the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Introduced In House on 02/21/2023