HB 1811 — An Act amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in property and buildings, further providing for price paid for acquisitions and improvements.

PRINTER'S NO.     2226

                      THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                          HOUSE BILL
                          No. 1811
                                                 Session of
                                                   2025

     INTRODUCED BY STEELE, HILL-EVANS, FREEMAN, MERSKI AND OTTEN,
        AUGUST 19, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, AUGUST 19, 2025


                                      AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 2      Statutes, in property and buildings, further providing for
 3      price paid for acquisitions and improvements.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.     Section 705(a) of Title 34 of the Pennsylvania
 7   Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
 8   § 705.   Price paid for acquisitions and improvements.
 9      (a)   Game lands.--
10            (1)    Except as provided under paragraph [(2)] (3), the
11      commission may pay for lands to be used as game lands what it
12      considers a fair and reasonable price [not to exceed $400 per
13      acre] exclusive of Federal and other cost-sharing funds and
14      consistent with the market value of land in the locality in
15      which the game land is located.
16            [(2)    The commission may pay for lands to be used as game
17      lands in a county of the second class what it considers a
18      fair and reasonable price exclusive of Federal and other
1     cost-sharing funds and consistent with the market value of
2     land in the locality in which the game land is located.]
3         (3)   For lands to be used as game lands in a county of
4     the sixth, seventh or eighth class, the fair and reasonable
5     price described in paragraph (1) may not exceed $400 per
6     acre.
7     * * *
8     Section 2.    This act shall take effect immediately.




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