ENGROSSED

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 106

(By Mr. Speaker, Mr. Kiss, and Delegates Martin,

Proudfoot, Varner, Douglas, Stemple and Pethtel)


([Originating in the on Constitutional Revision)


[February 23, 2000
]


Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia, amending article three thereof by adding a new section, designated section twenty-three, relating to the right of persons to hunt and fish in this state; numbering and designating such proposed amendment; and providing a summarized statement of the purpose of such proposed amendment.

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia, two thirds of the members elected to each house agreeing thereto:
That the question of ratification or rejection of an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia be submitted to the voters of the State at the next general election to be held in the year two thousand, which proposed amendment is that article three thereof be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty-three, to read as follows:
ARTICLE III. BILL OF RIGHTS.

§23. Right to hunt and fish.

All persons have the right to hunt and fish in this state in the manner prescribed by law or regulation.
Resolved further, That in accordance with the provisions of article eleven, chapter three of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, such proposed amendment is hereby numbered "Amendment No. 1" and designated as the "Sportsperson's Bill of Rights Amendment" and the purpose of the proposed amendment is summarized as follows: "The purpose of this amendment is to guarantee the right to all persons to hunt and fish in this State in the manner prescribed by law or regulation."