Landowners with less than five acres of property may not have to get a permit to fish or hunt on their land for much longer.

Today, a House committee passed House Bill 270.

It's similar to Senate Bill five, which was unanimously passed by the full Senate late last week.

Both bills repeal a recent law exempting farm land owners with five or more acres from getting licenses to hunt and fish on their own land.

Representative David Hale, a sponsor of the House version of the bill.

Personally know a lot of landowners that have five acres or less that have farm ponds.

They have places that they fish.

And I honestly, I felt like this was something that was not a good policy.

And I think probably all of us sitting here, myself included, we certainly got a lot of emails about this.

We got a lot of calls about this.

People called myself as being a 30 year employee, former employee of Fish and Wildlife, and asking how in the name of creation could you could you all pass something like that?

And so, again, I think that it was an unintended consequence.

So House Bill 217 now heads to the full House after it was passed by the committee for consideration by the full House membership.