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Contact: John Culclasure, Southeastern States Assistant Director  Virginia’s 2020 legislative session concluded with pro-sportsmen’s bills signed into law.  Management of Menhaden Fishery  On March 8, legislation was signed into law that transfers authority to manage Atlantic menhaden from the legislature to the Virginia Marine Resources Commission. Menhaden are important forage food for many recreationally important species, and…

Contact: John Culclasure, Southeastern States Assistant Director On March 7, two important bills for sportsmen and women in the Mountain State completed legislative action and are eligible for the Governor’s signature.   House Bill 4514 would authorize the use of leashed dogs for tracking mortally wounded deer or bear. The hunter must accompany the dog handler, and…

March 10, 2020 (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Yesterday, Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus (CSC) Member Senator Gardner (CO), and CSC Leaders Senators Manchin (WV), Heinrich (NM), and Boozman (AR) were joined by over a dozen other CSC members to introduce S. 3422, the Great American Outdoors Act, which will provide $900 million to the Land and Water Conservation…

Contact: Brent Miller, Senior Director, Northeastern States & States Program Administrator Two anti-hunting bills have been scheduled for floor action in the New York Senate and Assembly on Tuesday, March 10. New York sportsmen and women are encouraged to contact their legislators immediately, and respectfully voice their opposition to Senate Bill 7542 (SB 7542), and…

Contact: Kent Keene, Lower Midwestern State Coordinator On Monday, March 2, the Oklahoma House of Representatives voted unanimously to pass House Bill 3496 (HB 3496). Authored by Oklahoma Legislative Sportsmen’s Caucus Members, Representative John Talley in the House and National Assembly of Sportsmen’s Caucuses Executive Committee Alternate Member Senator Mark Allen in the Senate, HB…

Last week, a number of Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus (CSC) Members in the Senate announced, with the support of the President, they would introduce a robust bill to address our nation’s public infrastructure maintenance backlog and to provide funding for access and conservation by combining the Restore Our Parks Act (S. 500) and the Land and…