HB 2311 — An Act amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in hunting and furtaking, further providing for prohibited devices and methods.

PRINTER'S NO.   3043

                       THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                           HOUSE BILL
                           No. 2311
                                                  Session of
                                                    2026

     INTRODUCED BY KRUPA, BANTA, BERNSTINE, FINK, HAMM, ROWE AND
        WARNER, MARCH 20, 2026

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, MARCH 23, 2026


                                      AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 2      Statutes, in hunting and furtaking, further providing for
 3      prohibited devices and methods.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.      Section 2322(a)(2) of Title 34 of the
 7   Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
 8   § 2322.    Prohibited devices and methods.
 9      (a)    General rule.--Except as otherwise provided in this
10   title or commission regulation, no person shall hunt, kill or
11   take or attempt, aid, abet, assist or conspire to hunt, kill or
12   take any big game, except wild turkey, with any of the following
13   devices or methods:
14             * * *
15             (2)   Any automatic or semiautomatic firearm, except
16      [that] any semiautomatic firearm modified to permit one shell
17      in the chamber and no more than [four] five shells in a
18      magazine [may be used by a person who suffered an amputation
1     or lost the total use of one or both hands].
2         * * *
3     Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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