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HOUSE BILL NO. 137 Offered January 13, 2016 Prefiled December 18, 2015 A BILL to authorize the shooting of feral hogs in False Cape State Park and Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge. ---------- Patron-- Knight ---------- Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That notwithstanding § 5.1-17 of the Code of Virginia, employees of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and employees of federal agencies whose responsibilities include fisheries and wildlife management, in the performance of such employees' official duties, may hunt or kill feral hogs in False Cape State Park and Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge from aircraft, with the permission of the landowner. However, no such activity shall occur during waterfowl season.