SB 101 — Revises provisions relating to wildlife. (BDR 45-555)

(Reprinted with amendments adopted on April 15, 2025) FIRST REPRINT S.B.

(1) guilty of a or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 6 months, or by both fine orand imprisonment;

(NRS 501.388) Existing regulations interpret the term “edible portion” in existing lawgame tobirds meanand certaina big game mammal, except for a mountain lion and black bear.tain (NAC 503.0047) Section 1 of this bill specifies that this prohibition applies to any big game mammal and provides a definition of that term, which includes a mountain lion and black bear.

(NAC 503.0047)s and a big Section 1 of this bill codifies this interpretation of the term “edible portion” in the Nevada Revised Statutes but eliminates the exception for a mountain lion or black bear.

(NRS 501.385, 501.3855, 501.388, 503.050) Section 1 eliminates the exception from this prohibition for a carnivore, thus making the - *SB101_R1* – 2 – prohibition apply with respect to any game mammal.mammal, and specifies that a game mamSection 2 of this bill requires the Board of Wildlife Commissioners, on or before July 1, 2026, to adopt such regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of section 1.

-THE *SB101*PEOPLE –OF 2THE –STATE SectionOF 2NEVADA, ofREPRESENTED thisIN bill declares void the regulation interpreting “edible portion.” THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:DFOLLOWS: IN Section 1.

Section 1.

It is unlawful for any person to cause through carelessness, neglect or otherwise any edible portion of any game bird, game mammal, including, without limitation, a big game mammal, game fish or game amphibian to go to waste needlessly.

It is unlawful for any person to capture or destroy any game mammalmammal, [,[except except a carnivore,] including, without limitation, a big game mammal, and detach or remove from the carcass the head, hide, antlers, horns or tusks only and leave the carcass to waste.

(1) Pronghorn antelope, black bear, mule deer, mountain goat, mountain lion, moose,moose or Rocky Mountain elk;

or (III)(b) Rocky“Game Mountainbird” bighorndoes sheep.not include a raven, crow or magpie even if classified as a game bird pursuant to NRS 501.110.

(b) “Edible portion” means:

(1) With respect to a big game mammal:

(I) The meat of the front quarters to the distal joint of the radius-ulna;

(II) The meat of the hind quarters to the hock;

and (III) The meat along the backbone between the front quarters and hind quarters;

(2) With respect to a game mammal other than a big game mammal:

(I) The meat of the front quarters to the distal joint of the humerus;

(II) The meat of the hind quarters to the hock;

and (III) The meat along the backbone between the front quarters and hind quarters;

(3) With respect to a game bird, the meat of the breast;

and (4) With respect to a game fish, the fillet meat from the operculum to the caudal fin.

 The term “edible portion” does not include bones, sinew, viscera, meat from the head or neck, meat that has been damaged and rendered inedible by the method of the taking or meat that is - *SB101* – 3 – reasonably lost as a result of boning or close trimming of the bones.

(c) “Game bird” does not include a raven, crow or magpie even if classified as a game bird pursuant to NRS 501.110.

(d) “Hock” means the distal joint of the tibia-fibula.

The regulationBoard adoptedof byWildlife theCommissioners Boardshall, ofon Wildlifeor Commissioners,before whichJuly is1, codified2026, asadopt NACsuch 503.0047,regulations isas herebyare declarednecessary to becarry voidout andthe unenforceableprovisions onof OctoberNRS 1,503.050, 2025.as amended by section 1 of this act.

InH after- October*SB101_R1* 1, 2025, the Legislative Counsel shall remove thatr regulation.

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