MILD
HB 149
BIG GAME DEPREDATION DAMAGES & COMPENSATION
- Legislative URL:
- HB 149 on nmlegis.gov
- Emergency Clause:
- No
- Germane:
- N/A
- Location:
- HAFC
- Action:
- HPREF [1] not prntd-HRC [5] w/drn-prntd-ref- HAWC/HAFC-HAWC [11] w/o rec-HAFC API.
- Issue(s):
- Animals & Wildlife
Related Legislators
- Bill Sponsor:
- Bealquin Bill Gomez
Related Documents
- Downloads:
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Introduced
HAWC Committee Report
Fiscal Impact Report
Summary
This bill, for the Water and Natural Resources Committee and the Economic and Rural Development Committee, clarifies that the purpose of the Big Game Depredation Damage Fund includes compensation of landowners for the financial damages caused by big game.
A potential benefit of this bill is that it might provide important financial relief to landowners whose property has been damaged by big game. A concern might be that the fund might not have sufficient resources needed both to provide such financial relief and to achieve the fund’s initial purposes of correcting big game damage to federal, state or private land and preventing such damage in the future.