HB 2311

                                                    PRINTER'S NO.   3043
                   THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
                       HOUSE BILL
                       No. 2311
                                              Session of
                                                2026
 INTRODUCED BY KRUPA, BANTA, BERNSTINE, FINK, HAMM, ROWE AND
    WARNER, MARCH 20, 2026
 REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAME AND FISHERIES, MARCH 23, 2026
                                  AN ACT
1 Amending Title 34 (Game) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2    Statutes, in hunting and furtaking, further providing for
3    prohibited devices and methods.
4    The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6    Section 1.      Section 2322(a)(2) of Title 34 of the
7 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 2322.    Prohibited devices and methods.
9    (a)    General rule.--Except as otherwise provided in this
10 title or commission regulation, no person shall hunt, kill or
11 take or attempt, aid, abet, assist or conspire to hunt, kill or
12 take any big game, except wild turkey, with any of the following
13 devices or methods:
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15(2)   Any automatic or semiautomatic firearm, except
16    [that] any semiautomatic firearm modified to permit one shell
17    in the chamber and no more than [four] five shells in a
18    magazine [may be used by a person who suffered an amputation
1   or lost the total use of one or both hands].
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3   Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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