This bill makes several changes in the laws involving the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

1. In the law governing accident reports by whitewater trip outfitters, it changes the amount of property damage requiring a report from $100 to $1,000, which is consistent with other reporting requirements for boating, and clarifies that the reporting requirement for medical attention is for professional medical attention.

2. It repeals laws requiring the department to publish lists of bear and deer registration stations in a daily newspaper.

3. It repeals the requirement that if rulemaking is necessary to shorten the open season on deer, regulate the taking of antlerless deer or create special hunting seasons, the determination must be made and published by a certain date.

4. It repeals the requirement that the disabled hunter, trapper and angler advisory committee have a licensed physician as a member.

5. It establishes the Becoming an Outdoors Woman program as a program within the department.

6. It authorizes the department to issue complimentary fishing licenses to persons with acquired brain injury.

7. It amends the law regarding deer tags so that the department has flexibility in how the tag is issued.

8. It authorizes the department to sell extra copies of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, chapters 701 to 721, as prepared and printed by the department to help offset the cost of printing.

9. It repeals the requirements that a trespass reminder and convicted felon statement be printed on licenses.

10. It establishes a reinstatement fee for licenses that are suspended for failure to comply with court-ordered support under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 19-A, section 2201.

11. It requires that bait and baitfish be sold in containers that are composed in whole of biodegradable paper or cardboard.