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OK HB1668

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/3/2025

Primary Sponsor

Josh Cantrell

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates a new "commercial harvesting facility" license issued by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry for operations harvesting or hunting legally acquired privately owned cervidae (whitetail deer, mule deer, elk), cervidae hybrids, turkey, exotic species, and exotic hybrid species for profit or sale.

  • Prohibits any person from propagating or holding in captivity wildlife belonging to the state and requires applicants to submit proof that additional animals come from sources other than wild state stock.

  • Sets the annual license fee at $300.00 with licenses expiring August 31 each year; authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture and State Veterinarian to inspect facilities without prior notice if probable cause exists that a violation occurred.

  • Transfers commercial harvesting licensing authority from the Department of Wildlife Conservation to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, and removes certain inspection authority previously held by wildlife game wardens for cervidae operations.

  • Declares an emergency clause for immediate implementation upon passage and approval.

Legislative Description

Agriculture; Oklahoma Farmed Cervidae Act; definition; Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry; inspection; license fee; Department of Wildlife Conservation; rule promulgation authority; emergency.

Last Action

Policy recommendation to the Energy and Natural Resources Oversight committee; Do Pass Wildlife

2/25/2025

Committee Referrals

Wildlife2/17/2025
Agriculture2/4/2025
Energy and Natural Resources Oversight2/4/2025

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