House approves plan with bipartisan support

The state House has approved a Rep. Slagh bill to ensure Michigan’s hunting and fishing rules cannot be changed mid-season.

Slagh said the suggestion for the bill came from one of his constituents.

“Under current law, sportsmen can get caught in a sticky situation if they aren’t aware of a mid-season change in law and break it without even realizing it,” Slagh said.

Rep. Slagh’s House Bill 4029 would require that any Natural Resources Commission hunting and trapping orders be adopted by June 1 of that year to go into effect that same season and provides for publication of the orders in the annual hunting, fishing & trapping guide handbooks.

The representative said his plan is a commonsense solution to an avoidable problem.

The bill received overwhelming bipartisan support and now moves to be considered by the state Senate.