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by Joe Neville, KTA Executive Director
On September 20, the House Game and Fisheries Committee met to consider a number of bills relating to the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) and the Fish and Boat Commission. Before the meeting, KTA staff reviewed the agenda and found nothing of interest to consider.
However, during the meeting, an amendment was introduced to repeal the prohibition on Sunday hunting. Introduced into Senate Bill 1166 to increase the PGC hunting license fee, the amendment changed the Game Code to allow the PGC to institute Sunday hunting via regulation and remove the statutory prohibition on Sunday hunting. The amendment wasn’t considered germane to the intent of the bill and failed on primarily a party-line vote. Had it passed, we still would have had adequate time to oppose it. This should be the last attempt to institute Sunday hunting this legislative session.
The votes by the committee members in attendance were as follows:
Majority Members
Gillespie, Keith (chair) NAY
Emrick, Joe NAY
English, Harold A. NAY
Everett, Garth D. NAY
Fee, Mindy NAY
Gabler, Matt NV
Heffley, Doyle NAY
Jozwiak, Barry J. YEA
Keller, Mark K. NAY
Maloney, David M. NAY
McGinnis, John D. NAY
Miller, Brett R. NAY
Moul, Dan NAY
Peifer, Michael NAY
Warner, Ryan NAY
Wentling, Parke NAY
Minority Members
Harhai, Ted (chair) YEA
Burns, Frank YEA
Driscoll, Michael J. YEA
Farina, Frank YEA
Flynn, Marty YEA
Harkins, Patrick J. YEA
Kortz II, William C. YEA
Mahoney, Tim YEA
Mullery, Gerald J. YEA
Neilson, Ed YEA
Sims, Brian NV |