All Roll Calls
Yes: 888 • No: 581
PennsylvaniaHB 14312025-2026 Regular SessionHouse
An Act amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in game or wildlife protection, further providing for regulations and for unlawful activities; and, in hunting and furtaking, . . . repealing provisions relating to hunting on Sunday prohibited, further providing for unlawful devices and methods and for trespass on private property while hunting and repealing provisions relating to hunting on Sunday without written permission.
Sponsored By: Mandy Steele (Democratic)
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Stronger landowner protections and trespass penalties
Qualifying purple paint marks on trees or posts now provide trespass notice to hunters and people trapping wildlife. Knowingly entering or staying without authorization on posted, enclosed, or purple-marked land is a second-degree summary offense. It can also cost hunting privileges for up to one year. Defying a personally communicated order not to enter or to leave brings a misdemeanor and mandatory three-year privilege loss. A repeat violation within seven years brings a misdemeanor and mandatory five-year loss. Affected privileges must be restored immediately when charges are dropped or dismissed, or the person is found not guilty.
Sunday hunting expands with permission limits
The law repeals the general Sunday hunting ban, including its three-Sunday limit and related private-land written-permission rule. Other hunting laws and Game Commission rules still apply. A separate written-permission requirement applies to Sunday hunting under the subchapter containing section 2126. Breaking that requirement is a third-degree summary offense. The act takes effect 60 days after enactment.
Farm representation and backup hunting seasons
The Governor must ensure at least one Game Commission member represents farm commodity interests tied to normal farming and wildlife. The law uses the Right-to-Farm Law’s definitions of agricultural commodities and normal farm operations. If the Commission fails to set seasons, bag limits, or other rules, the prior license year’s rules carry forward. Season opening and closing dates shift one calendar day earlier, or two days earlier when the license year begins in a leap year.
New kill reports and carcass options
Required kill reports remain due within 24 hours and list the date, time, place, and number killed. Reports must give each carcass’s location instead of the animal’s sex. The Game Commission must offer assigned crop-damage deer removers self-reporting by toll-free phone, online application, or public website. Covered carcasses can go to a Commission-designated processor accepting donated animals instead of being made available to an officer. Carcass requirements, including removing entrails, still apply.
Hunters can use tested deer urine
Hunters can use natural deer urine to hunt, attract, or scout wildlife only when it meets testing and labeling requirements. Products must have no detectable chronic wasting disease prions, the proteins that cause the disease. Labels must show testing by real-time quaking-induced conversion assay or another commercially available method that detects those prions. Pennsylvania’s Agriculture Department may randomly select products for testing twice a year and must pay those testing costs.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Mandy Steele
Democratic • House
Cosponsors
Abigail Salisbury
Democratic • House
Arvind Venkat
Democratic • House
Ben Waxman
Democratic • House
Brian Smith
Republican • House
Chris Pielli
Democratic • House
Craig T. Staats
Republican • House
Dave Madsen
Democratic • House
Elizabeth Fiedler
Democratic • House
G. Roni Green
Democratic • House
Jim Haddock
Democratic • House
Joe Emrick
Republican • House
Nancy Guenst
Democratic • House
Patrick J. Harkins
Democratic • House
Tarah Probst
Democratic • House
Tarik Khan
Democratic • House
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 6/26/2025
House Bill 1431 PN1998, Final Passage
Yes: 34 • No: 16
Senate vote • 6/26/2025
House Bill 1431 PN1998 A01349, DUSH Amendment No. A-1349
Yes: 9 • No: 41
committee vote • 6/25/2025
16 6
Yes: 16 • No: 6
committee vote • 6/24/2025
7 4
Yes: 7 • No: 4
committee vote • 6/24/2025
5 6
Yes: 5 • No: 6
committee vote • 6/24/2025
6 5
Yes: 6 • No: 5
House vote • 6/11/2025
House Bill 1431 PN1896, FINAL PASSAGE
Yes: 131 • No: 72
committee vote • 6/11/2025
37 0
Yes: 37 • No: 0
House vote • 6/10/2025
House Bill 1431 PN1667 A00929, MOTION TO TABLE
Yes: 102 • No: 101
House vote • 6/10/2025
House Bill 1431 PN1667 A00935
Yes: 203 • No: 0
House vote • 6/10/2025
House Bill 1431 PN1667 A00958
Yes: 101 • No: 102
committee vote • 6/10/2025
18 15
Yes: 18 • No: 15
House vote • 6/10/2025
House Bill 1431 PN1667 A00932
Yes: 101 • No: 102
House vote • 6/10/2025
House Bill 1431 PN1667 A00928
Yes: 101 • No: 102
committee vote • 6/3/2025
17 9
Yes: 17 • No: 9
Actions Timeline
Act No. 36 of 2025
7/9/2025GovernorApproved by the Governor
7/9/2025GovernorPresented to the Governor
7/1/2025HouseSigned in Senate
6/30/2025HouseSigned in House
6/30/2025HouseHouse concurred in Senate amendments (142-61)
6/30/2025HouseRe-reported on concurrence, as committed
6/30/2025HouseReferred to Rules
6/30/2025HouseThird consideration and final passage (34-16)
6/26/2025SenateRe-reported as committed
6/25/2025SenateRe-referred to Appropriations
6/25/2025SenateSecond consideration
6/25/2025SenateFirst consideration
6/24/2025SenateReported as amended
6/24/2025SenateReferred to Game & Fisheries
6/18/2025SenateThird consideration and final passage (131-72)
6/11/2025HouseRe-reported as committed
6/11/2025HouseRe-committed to Appropriations
6/10/2025HouseSecond consideration, with amendments
6/10/2025HouseRe-reported as committed
6/10/2025HouseRe-committed to Rules
6/3/2025HouseFirst consideration
6/3/2025HouseReported as committed
6/3/2025HouseReferred to Game & Fisheries
5/8/2025House
Bill Text
PN 1998
6/24/2025
PN 1896
6/10/2025
PN 1667
5/8/2025
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