Reference is to Printer's Date 2/14/18 -S.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking all after the enacting words and inserting:
/ SECTION 1. Section 50-9-740 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 50-9-740.
(A) The department may select one or
more days to designate as a 'South Carolina Youth Hunting Day',
in addition to the regular seasons for a species of wild game. A
youth hunting day must be held outside a regular season on a
weekend, holiday, or other nonschool day when a youth hunter may
have the maximum opportunity to participate.
The A day must be held on the Saturday
before the regular Game Zone season framework for hunting
antlered deer only. The daily bag limit on this day is one
antlered deer. For all other game, the day may be held up to
fourteen days before or after a regular season framework or
within a split of a regular season, or within another open
season.
(B) A person who is
less than eighteen years of age may be a youth hunter. A
licensed Youth hunters who have not completed the
hunter education program pursuant to Section 50-9-310 who hunt
on a statewide youth hunting day must be accompanied by an
adult who is at least twenty-one years of age.
must accompany a youth hunter in the field and
The adult may not harvest or attempt to harvest game
during this special hunting event. A license requirement
specified in this chapter is waived on a youth hunting day under
this section for a youth hunter. A license or tag
requirement pursuant to this chapter is waived for a youth
hunter on a youth hunting day. A daily harvest limit remains
the same as allowed during regular seasons for each species of
game."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor. /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.