SENATE
                       3rd Reading Unamended
                   March 24, 2016      SENATE
                Amended 2nd Reading
                      March 22, 2016Second Regular Session
               Seventieth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                REENGROSSED
                       This Version Includes All Amendments
                       Adopted in the House of Introduction
 LLS NO. 16-1060.02 Jery Payne x2157     SENATE BILL 16-151
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Sonnenberg, 
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Brown and Vigil, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 Agriculture, Natural Resources, & Energy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning the right of Coloradans to hunt wildlife, and, in
            connection therewith, establishing hunting as the
            primary means of managing wildlife.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            The bill clarifies that the people have the right to hunt, fish, and
       harvest wildlife and also establishes public hunting and fishing as the
       primary means to manage wildlife in the state of Colorado.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 33-1-101, amend (4);
       and add (1.5) as follows:
            33-1-101.  Legislative declaration. (1.5)  In order to preserve
       Colorado's hunting and fishing heritage, the people will always
       have the right to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife. This right does
       not allow trespassing on private property; affect water rights;
       prevent the parks and wildlife commission, or a hearing officer
       with authority delegated by the parks and wildlife commission,
       from suspending or revoking an individual's hunting, fishing, or
       game-harvesting license; prevent the parks and wildlife
       commission from regulating the taking, possession, or use of
       wildlife in Colorado; or diminish other private rights.
            (4)  The In order to preserve the heritage, traditions, and
       culture of wildlife conservation, the state shall utilize use public
       hunting, trapping, and fishing as the primary methods of effecting
       necessary wildlife harvests controlling and managing wildlife.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
       takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
       ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
       10, 2016, if adjournment sine die is on May 11, 2016); except that, if a
       referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
       state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
       within such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2016 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the
       official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.