HCS SCS SB 198 -- USE OF LANDS

SPONSOR:  Mayer (Pollock)

COMMITTEE ACTION:  Voted "do pass" by the Special Committee on
State Parks and Waterways by a vote of 7 to 0.

This substitute authorizes the Director of the Department of
Natural Resources to enter into cooperative agreements with
private, not-for-profit organizations to reimburse the department
for the actual costs of providing state park facility space and
incidental staff support.  The agreement must also clearly
demonstrate the fiscal, interpretive, educational, and facility
enhancement benefits to the state.

The crime of distribution of a controlled substance near a park
when a person unlawfully distributes or delivers heroin, cocaine,
LSD, amphetamine, or methamphetamine to another individual within
1,000 feet of a public, private, state, county, or municipal park
is created.  The crime will be a class A felony.

The substitute also specifies that all historic shipwreck
materials and other objects that have historic or archaeological
value and have been abandoned on lands beneath navigable waters
belong to the state and will be administered and protected by the
Office of State Historic Preservation within the department.  Any
application for the approval of regulated activities at a
historic shipwreck site will include authorized written
permission from any affected landowner allowing access both to
and from sites on the property and any ground-disturbing
activities on the property.

Individuals are prohibited from fishing, hunting, trapping, or
retrieving wildlife from private land without the permission of
the owner or lessee of the property.  Any person who knowingly
does so will be guilty of a class B misdemeanor and may lose his
or her license to fish, hunt, or trap for one year from the date
of the conviction.

Any person who is engaged in the retrieval of wildlife from
private land with the permission of the landowner and
intentionally drives or flushes large or small game toward other
hunters located on other parcels of land or intentionally
discharges a firearm at large or small game that originates from
private land during the retrieval will be guilty of a class B
misdemeanor.

FISCAL NOTE:  Estimated Cost on General Revenue Fund of Less than
$100,000 in FY 2008, FY 2009, and FY 2010.  No impact on Other
State Funds in FY 2008, FY 2009, and FY 2010.

PROPONENTS:  Supporters say that the bill gives the Department of
Natural Resources expanded authority to enter into agreements
with private, not-for-profit groups.  Currently, the department
can only work with a group whose only purpose is to support state
parks.

Testifying for the bill were Senator Mayer; and Department of
Natural Resources.

OPPONENTS:  There was no opposition voiced to the committee.

Missouri House of Representatives
94th General Assembly, 1st Regular Session
Last Updated July 25, 2007 at 11:21 am