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Amend the bill in section 4 in subsection 2 in the first blocked paragraph in the first line (page 2, line 8 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "bought or sold under this subsection may not be attached to" and inserting the following: 'permitted to be bought or sold under this subsection may not be attached to any other parts of the'
Amend the bill in section 5 in subsection 1 in the blocked paragraph in the first line (page 2, line 20 in L.D.) by striking out the following "E" and inserting the following: 'E D'
Amend the bill in section 6 in subsection 2 in the 2nd line (page 2, line 26 in L.D.) by striking out the following: 'commercially'
Amend the bill in section 6 in subsection 2 in paragraph B in the first line (page 2, line 29 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "Buy" and inserting the following: 'Commercially buy'
Amend the bill in section 6 in subsection 2 in the blocked paragraph in the 2nd line (page 2, line 34 in L.D.) by inserting after the following: "attached to" the following: 'any other parts of the'
Amend the bill in section 7 in paragraph A by inserting at the end a new blocked paragraph to read:
 
‘All data submitted to the commissioner as part of the record is for scientific purposes only and is confidential and not a public record within the meaning of Title 1, chapter 13, subchapter 1, except that the commissioner may disclose data collected under this paragraph for law enforcement purposes or if the data is released in a form that is statistical or general in nature.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment does the following.
1. It clarifies that wild animal parts permitted to be bought and sold under the bill may not be attached to other parts of the animal.
2. It provides that a hide dealer's license is required to commercially buy, sell, barter or trade certain parts of animals or to buy, sell, barter or trade for any purpose, commercial or noncommercial, bear gall bladders, raw unfinished moose antlers and raw unfinished deer antlers.
3. It adds a confidentiality provision relating to reporting requirements for hide dealers to protect proprietary information.
4. It changes the class of crime for engaging in certain activities without a hide dealer's license from a Class E crime to a Class D crime.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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