Hunting: elk tags: apprentice elk hunt tags: fees for residents.

Under existing law, a hunting license grants the privilege to take birds and mammals. Existing law authorizes the Department of Fish and Wildlife to issue a tag that is required in addition to a hunting license to take an elk. Existing law sets the fee for an elk tag for a resident of the state at $165, as adjusted annually pursuant to a specified index. This bill would reduce the fee for an elk tag for a resident of the state to $100 and would prohibit the fee from being adjusted, except pursuant to an analysis of the fee to ensure that the appropriate fee amount is charged and a recommendation to the Legislature or the Fish and Game Commission that the fee be adjusted. The bill would also authorize the department, until January 1, 2024, to issue an apprentice elk hunt tag to a resident of the state for a fee of $20, and would prohibit any adjustment of that fee.