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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

AB 8

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Relating to: restrictions on hunting within a specified distance of hospitals, sanatoriums, or school grounds and restrictions imposed by local governmental units on hunting with a bow and arrow or crossbow.

Firearms and dangerous weapons Hospitals Hours of labor Hunting Municipality School — Building

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Assembly, completed
  3. Passes Senate, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law generally prohibits a local governmental unit from enacting or

adopting any ordinance or restriction (restriction) that regulates hunting, fishing,

trapping, or management of wild animals except on land the local governmental unit

owns or leases or unless state law specifically authorizes the local governmental unit

to enact or adopt such restriction. Current statutes also specify that a local

governmental unit may enact or adopt a restriction that has an incidental effect on

hunting, fishing, or trapping, but only if the primary purpose is to further public

health or safety.

This bill provides, with an exception, that a local governmental unit may not

enact or adopt a restriction that prohibits hunting with a bow and arrow or crossbow

within the jurisdiction of that local governmental unit. Under the exception provided

in the bill, a local governmental unit may prohibit a person from hunting with a bow

and arrow or crossbow within a specified distance, not to exceed 100 yards, of a

building used for human occupancy that is located on another person's land. The bill

specifies that the enacted or adopted restriction must provide that it does not apply

if the person who owns the land on which the building is located allows the hunter

to hunt with a bow and arrow or crossbow within the specified distance of the

building.

Under current law, no person may hunt within 1,700 feet of a hospital,

sanatorium, or the grounds of a school. This bill specifies that this prohibition

applies only to a person who is hunting with a firearm.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Kleefisch (R) , T. Larson (R)

2 cosponsors

Fitzgerald (R) , Kedzie (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 May 31, 2013 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 3 adoption recommended by Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage, Ayes 14, Noes 0

Passed 14–0 May 31, 2013 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage, Ayes 11, Noes 3

Passed 11–3 May 31, 2013 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report concurrence recommended by Natural Resources, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Aug 22, 2013 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 18, Noes 15

Passed 18–15 Sep 17, 2013 official source full page

Full history

  1. Feb 1, 2013 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Kleefisch and T. Larson; cosponsored by Senators Kedzie and Fitzgerald

  2. Feb 1, 2013 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage

  3. Apr 10, 2013 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Apr 29, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Kleefisch

  5. Apr 29, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representative Kleefisch

  6. May 2, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 3 offered by Representatives Milroy and Kleefisch

  7. May 22, 2013 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  8. May 31, 2013 · Assembly

    Referred to Committee on Rules

  9. May 31, 2013 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  10. May 31, 2013 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 3 adoption recommended by Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage, Ayes 14, Noes 0

  11. May 31, 2013 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Natural Resources and Sporting Heritage, Ayes 11, Noes 3

  12. Jun 4, 2013 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 6-6-2013 by Committee on Rules

  13. Jun 6, 2013 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  14. Jun 6, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 adopted

  15. Jun 6, 2013 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 3 adopted

  16. Jun 6, 2013 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  17. Jun 6, 2013 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  18. Jun 6, 2013 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed

  19. Jun 6, 2013 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  20. Jun 7, 2013 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  21. Jun 11, 2013 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Natural Resources

  22. Aug 15, 2013 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  23. Aug 22, 2013 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  24. Aug 22, 2013 · Senate

    Report concurrence recommended by Natural Resources, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  25. Aug 22, 2013 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  26. Sep 16, 2013 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 9-17-2013 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  27. Sep 17, 2013 · Senate

    Read a second time

  28. Sep 17, 2013 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  29. Sep 17, 2013 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  30. Sep 17, 2013 · Senate

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 18, Noes 15

  31. Sep 17, 2013 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  32. Sep 18, 2013 · Assembly

    Received from Senate concurred in

  33. Sep 26, 2013 · Assembly

    Report correctly enrolled on 9-26-2013

  34. Dec 10, 2013 · Assembly

    Presented to the Governor on 12-10-2013

  35. Dec 12, 2013 · Assembly

    Report approved by the Governor on 12-12-2013. 2013 Wisconsin Act 71

  36. Dec 12, 2013 · Assembly

    Published 12-13-2013