Membership of the Natural Resources Board

What it would have done

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

Under current law, the Natural Resources Board consists of seven members nominated by the governor and with the advice and consent of the senate appointed for six-year terms. Current law requires that at least three of the members be from north, and at least three of the members be from south, of a line running east and west through the southern limits of the city of Stevens Point.

This bill requires that, beginning in 2014, at least three members of the Natural Resources Board have held a hunting, fishing, or trapping license in at least seven of the ten years before the year of nomination. At least one of those members must hold or have held a trapping license. If an individual served on active duty in the military during the ten years before nomination, the number of years in which the individual is required to have held an annual hunting, fishing, or trapping license equals the number of years, during those ten years, that the person was a full-year resident of this state divided by two.

Who's behind it

11 lawmakers are its authors⁠. 8 are Democrats and 3 are Republicans.

1 more lawmaker signed on in support⁠.