Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session
Relating to: financial assistance for double-fencing farm-raised deer, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)
Agriculture trade and consumer protection department of Animal — Disease Fences Hunting
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Senate, not reached
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- Governor signs, not reached
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer
Protection to create a financial assistance program for persons who keep
farm-raised deer and who are required, either by DATCP or by the Department of
Natural Resources, to erect a double fence or a solid barrier around farm-raised deer
because of chronic wasting disease found in wild deer in the vicinity of the
farm-raised deer. Under the bill, financial assistance may be provided to pay for the
cost of any such fence beginning five years before the effective date of the bill.
Financial assistance may not be provided under the program to any person who
registers with DATCP to keep farm-raised deer after the effective date of the bill.