An Act To Exempt from Hunter Safety Courses Certain Veterans and Persons Who Have Completed Firearms Safety Courses
Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 1836
Committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsors: STANLEY, BRAKEY
Amends: 12 MRSA §11105

Legislative Document
No. 1836
H.P. 1278
House of Representatives, February 12, 2018
An Act To Exempt from Hunter Safety Courses Certain Veterans 
and Persons Who Have Completed Firearms Safety Courses
Reference to the Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife suggested and ordered 
printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative STANLEY of Medway.  (GOVERNOR'S BILL)
Cosponsored by Senator BRAKEY of Androscoggin.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  12 MRSA §11105, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2013, c. 538, §17, is 
further amended to read:
1.  
Hunter safety course requirements.  
Except as provided in subsection 
subsections 2 to 4, a person who applies for a Maine license to hunt with firearms other 
than a junior license or an apprentice hunter license issued under section 11108-B must 
submit proof of having successfully completed a hunter safety course as provided in 
section 10108 or an equivalent hunter safety course or satisfactory evidence of having 
previously held a valid adult license to hunt with firearms in this State or any other state, 
province or country in any year beginning with 1976.
When proof of competency can not otherwise be provided, the applicant may substitute a 
signed affidavit that the applicant has previously held the required adult hunting license 
or that the applicant has successfully completed the required hunter safety course.
Sec. 2.  12 MRSA §11105, sub-§§3 and 4 are enacted to read:
3.  Hunter safety course exemption for certain veterans.  A veteran of the Armed 
Forces of the United States is exempt from hunter safety course requirements under 
subsection 1 if that veteran provides at the time of application for a Maine license to hunt 
that veteran’s Armed Forces Report of Transfer or Discharge, DD Form 214, or its 
predecessor or successor forms, or certification from the United States Department of 
Veterans Affairs or the appropriate branch of the Armed Forces of the United States 
verifying the applicant’s military service and honorable discharge.
4.  Hunter safety course exemption for persons who have completed firearms 
safety courses.  A person is exempt from hunter safety course requirements under 
subsection 1 if that person provides at the time of application for a Maine license to hunt 
proof of having successfully completed a firearms safety course other than a program for 
training individuals in the safe handling of firearms pursuant to section 10108, subsection 
1.
SUMMARY
This bill provides that a veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States is exempt 
from hunter safety course requirements if that veteran provides at the time of application 
for a Maine license to hunt with firearms that veteran’s Armed Forces Report of Transfer 
or Discharge, DD Form 214, or its predecessor or successor forms, or certification from 
the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or the appropriate branch of the Armed 
Forces of the United States verifying the applicant’s military service and honorable 
discharge.
It also provides that a person is exempt from hunter safety course requirements if that 
person provides at the time of application for a Maine license to hunt proof of having 
successfully completed a firearms safety course other than a program for training 
individuals in the safe handling of firearms pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 
12, section 10108, subsection 1.