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Bills from the 2009–10 session

Assembly Bill 150

The possession of green skins of fur-bearing animals, the tagging of traps, and the sale, purchase, bartering, and trade of wild animals and their carcasses

Topics: Animal, Game, Game: Hunting, Natural Resources, Department of: Hunting and fishing

Stopped before the full Assembly voted

The recommended passing it, but the full Assembly never voted on it. To try again, a lawmaker would have to start a new bill.

  1. Introduced, passed

    Mar 13, 2009

  2. Committee, passed

    Approved

  3. Assembly vote, stopped here

    Stopped here. The full Assembly never voted on it.

  4. Senate vote, not reached

  5. Governor, not reached

  6. Law, not reached

Latest entry in the official record, Apr 28, 2010: “Failed to pass pursuant to ⁠”

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What it would have done

Summary by the , the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

Under current law, a person is prohibited from possessing the green skin of any fur-bearing animal, except beaver, from the fifth day after the beginning of the closed season for that animal until the end of that closed season. This bill exempts from this prohibition the possession of the green skin of a lawfully killed fur-bearing animal that carries a registration tag issued by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) or for which there is an open season without any bag or possession limits. The bill also exempts from the prohibition a landowner or occupant who possesses the greenskin of certain fur-bearing animals that are trapped on that land. Also, under the bill, the prohibition and the exemption apply to beaver in the same manner that they apply to other fur-bearing animals.

Under current law, with limited exceptions, no person may sell, buy, barter, or trade a deer (except farm-raised deer), bear, elk, squirrel, the carcass of one of those wild animals, at any time, or any other wild animal, or its carcass, during the closed season for that wild animal. The tail and skin of a squirrel are currently exempt from this prohibition. This bill expands the exemption by including the skull and claws of a squirrel. Also, the bill allows a person to sell, purchase, barter, or trade a fur-bearing animal that has a valid registration tag attached by DNR or a wild animal, or its carcass, for which there is an open season and for which there is no bag or possession limit. The bill further allows the sale, purchase, barter, and trade of liquid scent made from the carcass of a lawfully taken wild animal, except from a bear's gallbladder. Finally, the bill allows the sale, purchase, barter, and trade of rabbits, or their parts, if they are lawfully taken by landowners on their own property or as part of DNR's program for eliminating nuisance wildlife.

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Under current law, each trap used by a licensed trapper must have a metal tag that has the name and address of the owner of the trap. The bill changes this requirement so that the name and address must be that of the operator of the trap.

Under the bill, the operator of a trap may use, in lieu of the name and address, a customer identification number issued by DNR to the operator under DNR's automated system for issuing trapping licenses and other fishing and hunting approvals.

Who's behind it

7 lawmakers are its ⁠. 4 are Democrats and 3 are Republicans.

4 more lawmakers ⁠.

See all 11 names

Authors (7)

Signed on in support (4)

What it would cost

State agencies filed a . Each opens as a PDF from the Legislature.

How lawmakers voted

There was one vote on this bill.

Assembly Committee on Fish and Wildlife vote to recommend it

Passed, 10 to 0 · May 14, 2009

No member-by-member record exists for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Official motion: “Report passage recommended by committee on Fish and Wildlife, Ayes 10, Noes 0”. Official record · This vote on its own page

What happened

  1. Apr 28, 2010

    The session ended, and the bill died with it.

  2. May 14, 2009

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Rules.

  3. May 14, 2009

    The committee voted to recommend passing it, 10 to 0.

  4. Apr 29, 2009

    The committee held a public hearing.

  5. Apr 23, 2009

    A state agency sent in its estimate of the cost.

  6. Mar 13, 2009

    Sent to the Assembly Committee on Fish and Wildlife.

  7. Mar 13, 2009

    Introduced in the Assembly.

See the official record, word for word
  1. Mar 13, 2009 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Hraychuck, Gunderson, Milroy, A. Ott, Ripp, Smith and Vruwink;Cosponsored by Senators Holperin, Kedzie, Olsen and Taylor

  2. Mar 13, 2009 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Fish and Wildlife

  3. Apr 23, 2009 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 29, 2009 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  5. May 13, 2009 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. May 14, 2009 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by committee on Fish and Wildlife, Ayes 10, Noes 0

  7. May 14, 2009 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  8. Apr 28, 2010 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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Committee

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Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1. More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

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Official term: LRB analysis. More in the glossary

Author

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Signed on in support

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Official term: Cosponsor. More in the glossary

Cost estimate

A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.

Official term: Fiscal estimate. More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote. More in the glossary

From the Wisconsin Legislature's official record, checked Sep 15, 2026. See the source

Committee

A small group of lawmakers that looks at a bill first. Most bills never leave committee.

More in the glossary

Senate Joint Resolution 1

The session's calendar. Any bill not passed by its last voting day dies.

Official term: Failed to pass pursuant to SJR 1

More in the glossary

Legislative Reference Bureau

The Legislature's nonpartisan office that drafts bills and writes the summary at the top of each one.

Official term: LRB analysis

More in the glossary

Author

A lawmaker who formally puts a bill forward. The text itself is drafted by the Legislative Reference Bureau.

Official term: Author, coauthor

More in the glossary

Signed on in support

Lawmakers who back a bill without being one of its authors, often from the other chamber.

Official term: Cosponsor

More in the glossary

Cost estimate

A state agency's estimate of what a bill would cost or save.

Official term: Fiscal estimate

More in the glossary

Roll call

A vote where each lawmaker's yes or no is recorded by name.

Official term: Roll call vote

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