Resolution Proposing an Amendment Guaranteeing the Right to Hunt and Fish Exposed

The Resolution Proposing an Amendment Guaranteeing the Right to Hunt and Fish was considered by ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force at the 2011 Annual Meeting on August 4, 2011. This bill was part of the ALEC task force agenda between 2010 and 2012, but due to incomplete information, it is not known if the bill passed in a vote by legislators and lobbyists at ALEC task force meetings, if ALEC sought to distance itself from the bill as the public increased scrutiny of its pay-to-play activities, or if key operative language from the bill has been introduced by an ALEC legislator in a state legislature in the ensuing period or became binding law.

ALEC Draft Bill Text

Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of (Your State):

The following amendment to the Constitution of the State of (Your State) is proposed:

(Section and Article) OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF (Your State) IS AMENDED BY ADDING A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS:

The people have a right to hunt, fish, harvest game, or engage in the agricultural or commercial production of meat, fish, or poultry, which is a valued part of our heritage and shall be forever preserved for the public good, subject to laws prescribed by the General Assembly and rules prescribed by virtue of the authority of the General Assembly.