Pennsylvania HB 2311: An Act amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in hunting and furtaking, further providing for prohibited devices and methods.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 3043
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2311
Session of
2026
INTRODUCED BY KRUPA, BANTA, BERNSTINE, FINK, HAMM, ROWE AND
WARNER, MARCH 20, 2026
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, MARCH 23, 2026
AN ACT
Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in hunting and furtaking, further providing for
prohibited devices and methods.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2322(a)(2) of Title 34 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 2322. Prohibited devices and methods.
(a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided in this
title or commission regulation, no person shall hunt, kill or
take or attempt, aid, abet, assist or conspire to hunt, kill or
take any big game, except wild turkey, with any of the following
devices or methods:
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(2) Any automatic or semiautomatic firearm, except
[that] any semiautomatic firearm modified to permit one shell
in the chamber and no more than [four] five shells in a
magazine [may be used by a person who suffered an amputation
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or lost the total use of one or both hands].
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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