AB 495

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.