I strongly oppose this bill. GPS collars are not a fix all, they are prone to losing communication between the tracking collar and the hand held. Hunters should not be forced to use a collar that is not a 100% fix for the issue. Not everyone can afford to purchase new equipment. Many older generations of hunters still use, with great success, telemetry collars. Telemetry collars don’t lose communication with the handheld unit. Telemetry collars can track much greater distances than GPS collars. GPS collars are easily turned off by anti hunters catching hounds. Telemetry collars require a specific shaped magnet to turn the collar off. Telemetry collars have a battery life with thousands of hours, compared to your average GPS collars battery life of 12-48 hours. We need conservation officers to enforce the laws on the books, not more laws, but more conservation officers. Multiple hound study’s over the last 16 years and they all came to the same conclusion, more conservation officers to enforce laws on the books.