HB1265

The amendment gutted the bill and replaced its substance: instead of creating a new "avian special purpose salvage permit" that would allow individuals to salvage, incubate, hatch, and release eggs from non-migratory game birds, the amended version simply clarifies that the existing prohibition on taking bird eggs applies only to species protected at all times, while allowing egg salvage activities under the federal migratory bird permit. This NARROWS the bill from establishing state-level permitting authority to merely clarifying existing state law's interaction with federal permits.

The enrolled version removed a "hoghouse" notation indicating extensive amendments and cleaned up the bill's formatting and procedural language, but the substantive policy—authorizing egg salvage only for individuals holding a federal migratory bird special purpose salvage permit and prohibiting salvage of eggs from fully protected bird species—remains unchanged from the engrossed version.