Senate Bill No. 43
(By Senators Jackson, Love, Bailey, Schoonover and Ross)
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[Introduced February 13, l997; referred to the Committee
Natural Resources.]
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A BILL to amend article two, chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section thirty-b, relating to education in safe handling of firearms and bows and arrows; certified instructors; volunteer certified instructor; credit toward purchase of hunting license, stamps or endorsements; and legislative rules.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article two, chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section thirty-b, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 2. WILDLIFE RESOURCES.

§20-2-30b. Volunteer certified instructors of hunter safety courses; credit toward purchase of hunting license, stamps and endorsements.
Any unpaid volunteer who is certified as a hunter safety course instructor by the director under the provisions of section thirty-a of this article is entitled to earn credit toward the purchase of a hunting license and any stamps or endorsements thereon for service as an instructor. The director shall promulgate rules in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code to carry out the provisions of this section and to provide for credits to be earned based on the number of students taught and the time expended instructing.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow credit toward the purchase of hunting licenses, stamps and endorsements for volunteer certified instructors of hunter safety courses.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.