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PA HB1431
Bill
Status
7/9/2025
Primary Sponsor
Mandy Steele
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AI Summary
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Repeals Pennsylvania's prohibition on Sunday hunting, allowing hunting on Sundays statewide with written permission required from private landowners
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Strengthens trespassing penalties for hunters: first offense upgraded to summary offense of second degree with up to one-year license forfeiture; defying a personal order to leave becomes a misdemeanor with three-year license forfeiture; repeat offenses within seven years result in five-year license forfeiture
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Adds purple paint marks on trees or posts as legally recognized notice against trespassing, consistent with existing criminal trespass law (18 Pa.C.S. § 3503)
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Permits use of natural deer urine for hunting, attracting, or scouting wildlife without previous chronic wasting disease testing requirements
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Takes effect 60 days after enactment
Legislative Description
In game or wildlife protection, further providing for regulations and for unlawful activities; and, in hunting and furtaking, repealing provisions relating to hunting on Sunday prohibited, further providing for unlawful devices and methods and for trespass on private property while hunting and repealing provisions relating to hunting on Sunday without written permission.
Last Action
Act No. 36 of 2025
7/9/2025