SESSION OF 2024
SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE ON HOUSE BILL NO. 2672
As Amended by House Committee on
Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget

Brief*
HB 2672, as amended, would repeal authorization for
issuance of landowner or tenant hunt-on-your-own-land big
game permits and all special hunt-on-your-own-land deer
permits. The bill would create a new landowner appreciation
permit (permit) that would be valid for any white-tailed deer
hunting season.
The bill would require the Secretary of Wildlife and
Parks (Secretary) to issue as many as two permits to any
landowner who owns 80 contiguous deeded acres and
applies for the permit.
The annual application period for the permits would take
place during February each year, and the landowner would
be required to submit specific information to the Secretary.
The landowner would be required to pay an amount up to $25
as a permit fee. [Note: The permit fee would be set by the
Secretary through rules and regulations.]
The permit would authorize the permit holder to hunt on
any land owned by the landowner. The bill would authorize
the landowner to sell and transfer the permit to any resident
or non-resident. To transfer a permit, the landowner would be
required to submit a transfer form to the Secretary that would
contain certain information specified by the bill. The Secretary
would be required to approve or deny the transfer within five
business days.
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*Supplemental notes are prepared by the Legislative Research
Department and do not express legislative intent. The supplemental
note and fiscal note for this bill may be accessed on the Internet at
http://www.kslegislature.org
 The bill would also make technical amendments.

Background
The bill was introduced by the House Committee on
Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget at the request of
Representative Corbet.

House Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources
Budget
In the House Committee hearing, proponent testimony
was provided by a representative of the Kansas Livestock
Association (KLA) and two private citizens. The KLA
representative stated that KLA is supportive of the bill with
some edits, noting the KLA would like to limit the number of
landowner appreciation permits being issued and allow
landowners to sell the permits. The private citizens stated
they supported the idea of landowner appreciation permits
and being allowed to transfer and sell the permits.
Opponent testimony was provided by the Secretary,
representatives of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and The
Nature Conservancy, and three private citizens. The
opponents generally stated that the bill would cause
conservation issues by departing from generally accepted
deer management practices. The opponents also stated the
number of landowner appreciation permits allowed under the
bill, plus the language requiring the Secretary to issue such
permits, would reduce the number of general resident and
nonresident permits available for purchase.
Written-only opponent testimony was provided by a
private citizen.
No other testimony was provided.
The House Committee amended the bill to:

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 ● Require one landowner appreciation permit to be
issued to any landowner who applies for such
permit for each 80 contiguous, deeded acres
owned;
● Reduce the maximum number of landowner
appreciation permits issued to eligible landowners
from ten to two;
● Specify that the holder of a landowner appreciation
permit may hunt on any land owned by the
landowner; and
● Allow landowners to sell landowner appreciation
permits to residents and nonresidents.
Fiscal Information
According to the fiscal note prepared by the Division of
the Budget on the bill, as introduced, the Kansas Department
of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) estimates enactment of the bill
would both increase expenditures and reduce revenues.
KDWP indicates repealing authorization for landowner and
tenant hunt-on-your-own-land big game permits and all
special hunt-on-your-own-land (LOT) deer permits would
reduce revenues to the Wildlife Fee Fund by $702,190 for FY
2025.
In order to administer the new permits, the agency
would need to develop and implement a new software
program, with estimated expenditures totaling $100,000 from
the Wildlife Fee Fund in FY 2024. To monitor the new
program, KDWP estimates that 1.0 FTE position at a cost of
$45,884 from the Wildlife Fee Fund starting for FY 2025
would be needed.
KDWP further estimates that allowing up to ten
transferable permits to be issued to landowners would mean
fewer non-landowner deer permits issued. Reducing non-

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landowner permits issued would further reduce revenues to
the agency’s Wildlife Fee Fund. The KDWP assumes that one
landowner appreciation permit would be transferred for every
two LOT permits that were issued in 2022. That would result
in approximately 10,680 landowner appreciation deer permits
being transferred. If 70.0 percent of those permits were
transferred to nonresidents, the KDWP would lose $3.4
million each year in the Wildlife Fee Fund. If the remaining
30.0 percent were transferred to residents, revenues to the
Wildlife Fee Fund would be further reduced by $128,160 each
year.
KDWP also estimates a reduction in federal revenues.
Under the last apportionment for the federal fund in 2022,
Kansas received an additional $88.09 per license sale.
Assuming the same number of lost sales of 10,680, it is
estimated the KDWP would lose $940,801 in federal
revenues beginning in FY 2026.
Any fiscal effect associated with enactment of the bill is
not reflected in The FY 2025 Governor’s Budget Report.
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks; Secretary of Wildlife and Parks;
landowner; hunting; hunting permits; white-tail deer


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Statutes affected:
As introduced: 32-937, 32-988
As Amended by House Committee: 32-937, 32-988