ND House rejects pink hunting clothing

The North Dakota House has rejected a Senate bill that would allow blaze pink clothing to be worn while hunting.

The bill would have required hunters to wear at least 400 square inches of blaze pink — or blaze orange — in a solid or camouflage pattern.

Republican Rep. Shannon Roers Jones sponsored the bill, telling lawmakers  that, according to research and experts, blaze pink is not a concern to people with red-green color blindness.

Republican Rep. Todd Porter disagreed, saying that someone who has red-green color blindness “flat out told me that ‘if you stand with any derivative of red in front of a blue spruce or an evergreen tree, you will look grey to me. You will not stand out as an opposite or blaze color.'”

The Senate passed the bill in January, but a House Committee gave it a “do not pass” recommendation last week.

The House voted 78 to 14 against the bill today (Tue).

That leaves blaze orange as the only color allowed.