Bill No.: HB0088                  Drafter:  DKG

LSO No.:  11LSO-0346              Effective Date:  7/1/2011

Enrolled Act No.:  HEA0099

Chapter No.:

Prime Sponsor:     Representative McOmie

Catch Title:       Guides and outfitters.

Subject:  Various amendments to statutes regulating guides and outfitters.

Summary/Major Elements:

· This act clarifies and modifies various provisions regulating guides and outfitters.

· A definition of "guide services," and other definitions addressing what activities are subject to the guide and outfitter statutes are added.

· The act clarifies that guide services subject to the act are guide or packing services for the purposes of taking big or trophy game.

· The act requires advertisements for guide services to list at least one outfitter license number with the advertisement.

· The act clarifies that the board of outfitters and professional guides is authorized to investigate violations of the guides and outfitters act and may require a complainant to appear before the board in any investigation.

· The act adds to the guide's and outfitter's license requirements that the applicant not have committed any act for which a license could be suspended or revoked.

· Increases monetary penalty for violations of the guide and outfitter act from $2,000 to $5,000 and eliminates the potential of a sentence of up to one year imprisonment.