05 AM
25 0855
ADOPTED
Senator
Williams of the 19th offered the following amendment:
Amend
the House substitute to SB 206 (LC 25 4123S) by striking lines 1 through 6 of
page 1 and inserting in lieu thereof the
following:
"To amend Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to game and fish, so as to change certain provisions relating to legislative declarations relative to hunting, fishing, and the taking of wildlife, ownership and custody of wildlife, promotion and right to hunt, trap, or fish, local regulation, and general offenses; to change certain provisions relating to hunting deer with dogs; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.".
"To amend Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to game and fish, so as to change certain provisions relating to legislative declarations relative to hunting, fishing, and the taking of wildlife, ownership and custody of wildlife, promotion and right to hunt, trap, or fish, local regulation, and general offenses; to change certain provisions relating to hunting deer with dogs; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.".
By
striking Section 1 and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
"SECTION
1.
Title
27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to game and fish, is
amended in subsection (c) of Code Section 27-1-3, relating to legislative
declarations relative to hunting, fishing, and the taking of wildlife, ownership
and custody of wildlife, promotion and right to hunt, trap, or fish, local
regulation, and general offenses, by designating the existing provisions of said
subsection as paragraph (2) thereof and adding a new paragraph (1) to read as
follows:
'(1)
To the greatest practical extent, department land management decisions and
actions shall not result in any net loss of land acreage available for hunting
opportunities on department managed state owned lands that exists on the
effective date of this
paragraph.'".