Remedial HTE before getting suspended license back

[pfsc]

HB 1765 By Goodman. Amends Title 34 (Game), in enforcement, further providing for revocation, suspension or denial of license, permit or registration.

HCO2625 By Goodman. Requires every hunter who has had their hunting privileges suspended by the Game Commission take a remedial hunter education and safety course before being issued a new license.

* December 8, 2015 02:25 PM
* Rep. Neal Goodman
* Remedial Hunter Education and Safety Course for All Suspensions by Game
* Commission
* In the near future, I will introduce legislation that amends Title 34
* (Game) to require that every hunter who has had their hunting
* privileges suspended by the Game Commission take a remedial hunter
* education and safety course before being issued a new license.
*
* Currently, that requirement only exists for those license holders
* whose license has been revoked due to a statutory mandate within the
* Code. Act 54 of 2010 removed nearly all mandated revocations in Title
* 34, giving the Game Commission the authority to decide upon the
* imposition and terms of license suspensions.
*
* With my bill, all license holders whose privileges are revoked by the
* Game Commission, whether their offense included a statutorily mandated
* revocation or not, will need to attend a remedial hunter education and
* safety course. That course is different from the course that new
* licensees must pass; it includes more study of hunting and trapping
* laws and discussions of participants' past violations.
*
* I believe the fact that a hunter's license has been suspended is proof
* enough that they are in need of the additional education and attention
* provided in the Pennsylvania Game Commission's remedial hunter
* education course.

[GlennD]

Not unless the bill provides provisions for classes, how often, where at, and cost.

You cannot establish a new requirement without provision for how the new requirements will be met.

Gun control statutes have used this tactic to stall and deny an applicant from purchasing a gun. Require a class, but never establish the curriculum and schedules.

[annieoroberts00]

Thanks for the information.

[dennyf]

Long before 2010, was at PGC HQ one day and back in the training school area. Room about half full of guys and someone conducting a course was lecturing them. When I asked WTH that was all about, told it was a mandatory remedial course for those wishing to regain their ability to buy a hunting license, after being on revocation.

Wasn't aware that reasonable process had been tampered with?

[redarrow]

Someone who loses the right to buy license probably needs a character building class more than hunter education. Sounds like a case of doing something for the sake of saying something was done.

[Dutch]

You can't teach ethics to some people.