SB1466sam001 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Neil Anderson

Filed: 3/8/2017

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1466

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1466 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Wildlife Code is amended by changing Section 2.5 as follows:

(520 ILCS 5/2.5)

Sec. 2.5. Crossbow conditions.

(a) A person may use a crossbow if one or more of the following conditions are met:

(1) the user is a person age 62 and older;

(2) the user is a person with a disability to whom the Director has issued a permit to use a crossbow, as provided by administrative rule; or

(3) the date of using the crossbow is during the period of the second Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday through the last day of the archery deer hunting season (both inclusive) set annually by the Director.

(b) As used in this Section, "person with a disability" means a person who has a physical impairment due to injury or disease, congenital or acquired, which renders the person so severely disabled as to be unable to use a longbow, recurve bow, or compound bow. Permits must be issued only after the receipt of a physician's statement confirming the applicant is a person with a disability as defined above.

(c) A person may use a crossbow to take coyotes when it is legal to use a bow and arrow to take coyotes.

(Source: P.A. 99-78, eff. 7-20-15; 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)".