Next vote imminent on opening more Sunday hunting in Pennsylvania
With the next vote expected Monday, October 28, in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, hunters may be closing in on some additional Sunday hunting.
But, if Senate Bill 147 is approved by the full House on Monday, the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau will continue on its way to gaining even more from a legislative process that began its latest edition in February, when the Senate approved the original bill.
If the bill is approved by the House and then by the Senate, in its amended form, and then signed by the governor, hunters next year will be permitted to hunt on 3 Sundays: 1 in archery deer season, 1 in firearms deer season and 1 on a Sunday selected by the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
The Farm Bureau insisted on those 3 dates as part of its offer to take a neutral position on the bill, previous versions of which it had successfully opposed for many previous years.
SB 147, in its original form, entirely removed Pennsylvania’s centuries-old prohibition on Sunday hunting and would have allowed the commission to decide the Sundays to be opened to hunting.
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