HB 2539 Summary

• Amends Arizona Revised Statutes Section 17-301 to prohibit taking wildlife except aquatic wildlife only during daylight hours, removing the exception that previously allowed the Arizona Game and Fish Commission to prescribe other times.

• Eliminates the commission's authority to permit the use of jacklights, artificial lights, or illegal devices for taking wildlife.

• Makes technical corrections to language regarding trapping methods, including clarifications on the use of leghold traps, instant kill body gripping traps, poisons, and snares on public lands.

• Preserves existing exemptions for scientific research, sport falconry, wildlife relocation, rodent control, and other commission-regulated hunting and fishing activities.