The Vance County hunting bill that the state House passed last week moved through the Senate Committee on State and Local Government and received a favorable report Wednesday afternoon.
The next step for H.982 should be passage on the Senate floor.
Vance’s two House members, Democrats Jim Crawford and Michael Wray, sponsored the bill, which would ban hunting and the firing of high-powered rifles in or across the right of way of a public road, punishable by a $250 fine.