Amendment ID: S2069-1

Amendment 1

Enhancing the enforcement of illegal hunting practices

The committee on Ways and Means recommends that the bill be amended by striking out, in lines 263 and 264, the following words “The governor shall enter into a compact on behalf of the commonwealth with any other jurisdiction legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows:-”;

and in section 10, in subsection (a) of Article VII of proposed chapter 131B of the General Laws by inserting after the third sentence the following sentence:- “The compact administrator for the commonwealth shall be the director of fisheries and wildlife or a designee.”;

and by inserting, in line 471, after the word “presented”, the following words:- “by the compact administrator”;

and by adding the following section:-

“SECTION 11. The division of fisheries and wildlife shall promulgate rules and regulations for the implementation of the Wildlife Violator Compact, established in section 10, within 6 months after of the effective date of this act.”