The Committee on Natural Resources moves to amend the bill, beginning on page 2, by striking out all of section (b) (1) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:


(b) (1) Any person who, while hunting, pursuing, taking or killing wild animals or wild birds, discharges a firearm or arrow and knows or should have known that, by such discharge, another person is injured or killed, shall immediately give his or her name and address to the injured person or any other person attending the injured person, shall immediately report the injury or death to the 911 emergency center or sheriff of the county in which the shooting took place and shall render assistance to the injured person including the carrying, or the making arrangements for the carrying of such person to a physician, surgeon or hospital for medical or surgical treatment if it is apparent that such treatment is necessary or if such carrying is requested by the injured person.
(2) Any person violating the provisions of subdivision (1) of this subsection after being involved in the discharge of a firearm or arrow resulting in the death of any person is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction shall be fined not more than $10,000 and imprisoned in a correctional facility for a definite term of imprisonment of not less than one year nor more than five years. Further, the person's hunting and fishing licenses shall be suspended for ten years from the date of conviction or the date of release from incarceration, whichever is later.
(3) Any person violating the provisions of subdivision (1) of this subsection after being involved in the discharge of a firearm or arrow resulting in the injury, but not death, of any person is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $2,000 nor more than $5,000 and confined in jail for not more than one year. Further, the person's hunting and fishing licenses shall be suspended for five years from the date of conviction or the date of release from incarceration, whichever is later.
(c) (1) It is unlawful for any person, while engaged in hunting, pursuing, taking or killing wild animals or wild birds, to carelessly or negligently shoot and wound any human being while the shooter:
(A) Is under the influence of alcohol; or
(B) Is under the influence of any controlled substance; or
(C) Is under the influence of any other drug; or
(D) Is under the combined influence of alcohol and any controlled substance or any other drug; or
(E) Has an alcohol concentration in his or her blood of eight hundredths of one percent or more, by weight.
(2) Any person violating this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $2,000 nor more than $15,000, or confined in jail for not less than two months nor more than one year, or both fined and confined. Restitution of actual medical costs caused by the violation may be required by the court upon conviction.
(c)(1) It is unlawful for any person, while engaged in hunting, pursuing, taking or killing wild animals or wild birds, to carelessly or negligently shoot and kill any human being while the shooter:
(A) Is under the influence of alcohol; or
(B) Is under the influence of any controlled substance; or
(C) Is under the influence of any other drug; or
(D) Is under the combined influence of alcohol and any controlled substance or any other drug; or
(E) Has an alcohol concentration in his or her blood of eight hundredths of one percent or more, by weight.
(2) Any person violating this subsection is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $5,000 nor more than $20,000, or imprisoned in a state correctional facility for not less than one year nor more than three years, or both fined and imprisoned. Restitution of actual medical costs and funeral, burial and crematory costs caused by the violation may be required upon conviction.



NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide criminal penalties for a hunter to fail to render aid to a person the hunter shoots while hunting and to provide criminal penalties for negligently or carelessly shooting and wounding or killing a human being while hunting under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.