Bill Description: Senate Bill 1143 would allow the Idaho Fish and Game Commission to restrict or prohibit the possession and transportation of shed antlers or horns. 

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Does it directly or indirectly create or increase penalties for victimless crimes or non-restorative penalties for nonviolent crimes? Conversely, does it eliminate or decrease penalties for victimless crimes or non-restorative penalties for non-violent crimes?

Senate Bill 1143 would create Section 36-507, Idaho Code, to allow the Idaho Fish and Game Commission to "by rule or proclamation … provide seasonal restrictions on the possession and transportation of shed antlers or horns from deer, elk, moose, and pronghorn and antlers or horns from deer, elk, moose, bighorn sheep, and pronghorn that have died from natural causes."

It further says that "the commission may restrict the acts of searching for, locating, or gathering antlers or horns under this section."

Because the rules of the commission have the force of law, this bill would allow the commission to add to the list of victimless actions the state punishes with criminal sanctions.

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