Senate Bill 56 Substitute Addresses Non-Resident Permits

[Phil Lilley]

http://confedmo.org/senate-bill-56-substitute-addresses-non-resident-permits/

Legislation that would have eliminated fees for resident hunting, fishing and trapping permits has been replaced by a substitute version of Senate Bill 56. The new version of Senate Bill 56 addresses non-resident landowner permits.

Senator Brian Munzlinger, the sponsor of Senate Bill 56, offered the substitute after learning Missouri would lose nearly $20 million in Federal reimbursements tied to the sale of permits.

The new version of Senate Bill 56 states, "Any United States citizen, business, or corporation who is not considered a resident of Missouri but owns at least seventy-five acres of real property in Missouri shall only be assessed fifty percent of the non-resident fee for any hunting, fishing, or trapping permit for use only on the real property owned. The cost of such non-resident permit shall apply toward the cost of any other non-resident hunting, fishing, or trapping permit fee. If a business or corporation owns the requisite amount of real property, only one person within the business or corporation shall be eligible to use the non-resident fee reductions specified under this section."

"This change will provide greater incentive to those that pay property taxes in Missouri to stay longer and hopefully spend more money in the state while enjoying the outdoors on their own land," said Senator Brian Munzlinger.

The Missouri Department of Conservation is working on a fiscal note and analyzing the impact of the bill.

[Chief Grey Bear]

Whoa!!! We stand to loose $20m!!!! Don't take my money!!!!

But he sure didn't have a problem taking money from the MDC!!!

But this does sound like a fair bill. Might add Trust and Holding companies too.

[Feathers and Fins]

Here is my personal take on Non-resident license sales as a whole. If it was any other commodity and anyone charged non-residents more they would be visited by the State Attorney General for price gouging. I think licenses should be one price across the board in all states for resident and non-resident. I have never understood how DNR's get away with it and to my knowledge it is the only think that non-residents have to pay more for.

[grizwilson]

Here is my personal take on Non-resident license sales as a whole. If it was any other commodity and anyone charged non-residents more they would be visited by the State Attorney General for price gouging. I think licenses should be one price across the board in all states for resident and non-resident. I have never understood how DNR's get away with it and to my knowledge it is the only think that non-residents have to pay more for.

Try sending your kid out of State for College for starters......Colorado charges me over 500 for a elk tag, resident less than 40.....

[SpoonDog]

I think part of the rationale is nonresidents aren't paying into the system (the 1/8 cent sales tax, for example), like residents are. And many state fish and game outfits, especially out west, receive little or no funding from the legislature- permit sales are their only revenue stream.

I wouldn't be opposed to allowing out of state landowners the opportunity to pay in state prices for licenses, though.

[Claybuster]

If these said "out - of - staters" can afford 75 acres of Missouri land.......... Then they can surely afford an out of state permit!

Nuff said