SB 27

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.