Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 700

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Relating to: the date on which the annual open season for hunting and trapping wolves begins. (FE)

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Introduced, completed
Passes Assembly, completed
Passes Senate, completed
Governor signs, completed
Law, completed

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill changes the date on which the annual open season for hunting and

trapping wolves begins.

Current law authorizes the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to allow

the hunting and trapping of wolves if the wolf is not listed on the federal and

Wisconsin lists of endangered and threatened species (endangered lists). Current

law requires DNR to regulate wolf hunting and trapping and to implement a wolf

management plan. To that end, DNR issues wolf harvesting licenses authorizing the

hunting or trapping of wolves if those wolves are not listed on the endangered lists.

If wolf hunting and trapping is allowed, DNR must establish a single annual open

season that begins on October 15 of each year and ends on the last day of February

of the following year.

This bill changes the date on which the annual open season for wolf hunting and

trapping begins from October 15 of each year in which wolf hunting and trapping is

allowed to the first Saturday in November of each year in which wolf hunting and

trapping is allowed.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Fiscal Estimate From DNR

Votes

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

Passed 14–0 Feb 3, 2016 official source full page

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

Senate: Public hearing requirement waived by committee on Senate Organization, pursuant to Senate Rule 18 (1m), Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Feb 15, 2016 official source full page