SB 3043: DLNR; HUNTING; FERAL PIGS; GAME MAMMALS; ANIMAL CRUELTY; DOG WELFARE STANDARDS
- Session Year: 2025-2026
- House: Senate
- Latest Version Date: 2026-02-19
Current Status:
In Progress
(2026-02-20: Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC/WAM.)
Introduced
In Committee
First Chamber
In Committee
Second Chamber
Final Decking
Enacted
Version:
Requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to adopt rules regarding safe and humane hunting practices of feral pigs and hunting dog welfare standards. Establishes requirements for the hunter education program instruction. Includes the use of dogs to torture wildlife or game mammals as torture in the second degree. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Discussed in Hearing
2MINFeb 11, 2026
Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and Environment
2MINFeb 11, 2026
Senate Standing Committee on Water, Land, Culture and the Arts
14MINFeb 11, 2026
Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and Environment
14MINFeb 11, 2026