Generally revise laws related to the block management program.

Added requirement that department must notify adjacent public land leaseholders and ensure proposed agreements don't violate existing lease terms

Commission may now adopt simplified rules for agreements that only provide access to adjacent public lands

Requires consideration of adjacent leaseholder support or objections when evaluating simplified access agreements

Maintains existing payment limits of $50,000 annually for annual agreements and $25,000 for agreements providing only public land access

Clarified that private land is ineligible if commercial hunting fees or outfitting unreasonably restrict public hunting opportunities

Added requirement for the Department to notify adjacent public land leaseholders about proposed hunting access agreements.

Added requirement to ensure proposed agreements do not violate or interfere with existing adjacent public land lease agreements.

Added requirement to incorporate relevant terms from adjacent public land lease agreements into proposed access agreements.

Added opportunity for adjacent public land leaseholders to support or object to proposed access agreements.

Reorganized and clarified the structure of hunting access program provisions, changing from a less structured format to clearly numbered subsections with specific procedural steps.

Bill number changed from LC 3872 to HB 763.1

Sponsor list was updated with new names and formatting

Page headers and footers were updated to reflect the new bill number