The handling of deer carcasses in the field, the transport of deer carcasses, and the suspension of portions of emergency rules of the Department of Natural Resources

What it would have done

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

Current law authorizes the Department of Natural Resources, in order to control chronic wasting disease, to promulgate rules regulating the transportation, possession, control, storage, or disposal of the carcass of a cervid, which is any species of deer or elk that is present in the wild and that is not a farm-raised deer. Under this bill, DNR may not prohibit the transportation of a deer carcass out of the county in which it was harvested. Also under the bill, DNR must require that all parts of a deer carcass be removed from the field, except for entrails.

This bill is introduced as required by s. 227.26 (2) (f), stats., in support of the action of the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules in suspending portions of section NR 10.105, Wis. Adm. Code, emergency rules of the Department of Natural Resources on October 1, 2018. The suspended portions of the rules eliminated restrictions on dividing a deer carcass in the field and a prohibition on leaving any part of a deer carcass in the field and generally prohibited a deer carcass harvested in a chronic wasting disease affected area from being transported outside of the county of harvest.

Who's behind it

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