HB 800 — An Act amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in hunting and furtaking, further providing for interference with lawful taking of wildlife or other activities permitted by this title prohibited.

PRINTER'S NO.   810

                      THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                           HOUSE BILL
                           No. 800
                                                  Session of
                                                    2025

     INTRODUCED BY EMRICK, STENDER, ROWE AND ZIMMERMAN, MARCH 3, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, MARCH 3, 2025


                                       AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 2      Statutes, in hunting and furtaking, further providing for
 3      interference with lawful taking of wildlife or other
 4      activities permitted by this title prohibited.
 5      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 6   hereby enacts as follows:
 7      Section 1.      Section 2302(a.1) and (d) of Title 34 of the
 8   Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
 9   § 2302.    Interference with lawful taking of wildlife or other
10                   activities permitted by this title prohibited.
11      * * *
12      (a.1)    Activities which violate section.--A person violates
13   this section when he intentionally or knowingly:
14             (1)   drives or disturbs wildlife for the purpose of
15      disrupting the lawful taking of wildlife where another person
16      is engaged in the process of lawfully taking wildlife or
17      other permitted activities;
18             (2)   blocks, impedes or otherwise harasses another person
19      who is engaged in the process of lawfully taking wildlife or
 1    other permitted activities;
 2          (3)   uses natural or artificial visual, aural, olfactory
 3    or physical stimuli to affect wildlife behavior in order to
 4    hinder or prevent the lawful taking of wildlife or other
 5    permitted activities;
 6          (4)   creates or erects barriers with the intent to deny
 7    ingress or egress to areas where the lawful taking of
 8    wildlife or other permitted activities may occur;
 9          (5)   interjects himself into the line of fire;
10          (6)   affects the condition or placement of personal or
11    public property intended for use in the lawful taking,
12    viewing, photographing or video recording of wildlife or
13    other permitted activities in order to impair its usefulness
14    or prevent its use;
15          (7)   enters or remains upon public lands or upon private
16    lands without permission of the owner or their agent, with
17    intent to violate this section; or
18          (8)   fails to obey the order of any officer whose duty it
19    is to enforce any of the laws of this Commonwealth where such
20    officer observes any conduct which violates this section or
21    has reasonable grounds to believe that any person intends to
22    engage in such conduct.
23    * * *
24    (d)   Penalties.--[A]
25          (1)   Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2), a
26    violation of this section is a summary offense of the second
27    degree.
28          (2)   A violation of subsection (a)(6) is a summary
29    offense of the first degree. In addition to any penalty, the
30    violator shall be denied the right to hunt or trap in this

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1     Commonwealth, with or without a license, for a period of one
2     year.
3     Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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