Senate Bill 1003 Summary

• Changes Class 2 junior hunting licenses to require ages 10-17 (instead of 12-17), with 10-11 year-olds prohibited from hunting big game and must be accompanied by an adult licensed to hunt in Idaho.

• Removes separate youth small game and youth hunter education graduate license categories by consolidating them into existing license classes.

• Expands trapping licenses (both resident and nonresident) to explicitly entitle purchasers to trap wolves, in addition to other furbearing animals.

• Reclassifies disabled hunting licenses as Class 6 licenses and establishes a nonresident disabled hunting license fee of $3.25, while removing the nonresident disabled combination license.

• Updates nonresident junior mentored hunting licenses to prohibit 10-11 year-olds from hunting big game and adjusts age eligibility from 12-17 to 10-17 years old.