Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session
Relating to: changes to certain nonresident hunting, trapping, and fishing approval fees. (FE)
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- Introduced, stopped here
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Beginning on March 1, 2024, this bill increases all of the following fees for
nonresident hunting, trapping, and fishing approvals:
1. Nonresident elk and bear hunting licenses: $248.25 to $311.25
2. Nonresident archer and crossbow deer hunting licenses: $162.25 to $197.25.
3. Nonresident bonus deer hunting permit, outside chronic wasting disease
areas: $19.25 to $30.25.
4. Nonresident wild turkey hunting license: $62.25 to $97.25.
5. Nonresident additional wild turkey hunting authorization: $14.75 to $23.75.
6. Nonresident fur-bearing animal license: $162.25 to $197.25.
7. Nonresident wolf harvesting license: $250.25 to $313.25.
8. Nonresident trapping license: $149.25 to $187.25.
9. Itinerant fur buyer license: $200 to $600.
10. Nonresident conservation patron license: $615.25 to $715.25.
11. Nonresident youth conservation patron license: $72.25 to $86.25.
12. Nonresident sports fishing license: $292.25 to $319.25.
13. Nonresident youth sports fishing license: $33.25 to $38.25.
14. Nonresident two-day sports fishing license: $9.25 to $10.25.
15. Nonresident sturgeon spearing fishing license: $64.25 to $70.25.
16. Nonresident sturgeon hook and line fishing tag: $49.75 to $54.75.
17. Nonresident outlying waters commercial fishing license fees, with or
without a boat: $6,499.25 to $12,249.25.
18. Nonresident Lake Michigan, Green Bay, and Lake Superior sport trolling
licenses: $400 to $2,000.
19. Nonresident fishing guide license: $99.25 to $219.25.
20. Nonresident taxidermist license: $100 to $275.
21. Nonresident wild ginseng harvest license: $30 to $60.
22. Nonresident ginseng dealer license: $1,000 to $2,000.
The bill also decreases the nonresident five-day small game hunting license fee
to $55.25 from $57.25.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs
Sponsors
Votes
Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Sporting Heritage, Ayes 12, Noes 0
Passed 12–0 Feb 14, 2024 official source full pageNo individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.
Aye · 97
- Adam Neylon (15)
- Alex Dallman (39)
- Alex Joers (81)
- Amanda Nedweski (32)
- Amy Binsfeld (27)
- Barbara Dittrich (99)
- Bob Donovan (61)
- Bob Wittke (63)
- Calvin Callahan (35)
- Chanz Green (74)
- Christine Sinicki (20)
- Chuck Wichgers (84)
- Cindi Duchow (97)
- Clint Anderson (45)
- Clint Moses (92)
- Daniel Riemer (7)
- Darrin Madison (10)
- Dave Armstrong (67)
- Dave Considine (81)
- Dave Maxey (83)
- Dave Murphy (56)
- David Steffen (4)
- Deb Andraca (23)
- Donna Rozar (69)
- Dora Drake (4)
- Elijah Behnke (6)
- Ellen Schutt (31)
- Evan Goyke (18)
- Francesca Hong (76)
- Gae Magnafici (28)
- Greta Neubauer (66)
- Gus Gustafson (55)
- James Edming (87)
- Janel Brandtjen (22)
- Jeff Mursau (36)
- Jenna Jacobson (50)
- Jerry O'Connor (60)
- Jessie Rodriguez (21)
- Jill Billings (95)
- Jimmy Anderson (47)
- Jodi Emerson (91)
- Joel Kitchens (1)
- John Macco (88)
- John Spiros (86)
- Jon Plumer (42)
- Joy Goeben (5)
- Kalan Haywood (16)
- Karen Hurd (69)
- Katrina Shankland (71)
- Kevin Petersen (57)
- Kristina Shelton (90)
- LaKeshia Myers (12)
- Lee Snodgrass (52)
- Lisa Subeck (79)
- Loren Oldenburg (96)
- Lori Palmeri (54)
- Marisabel Cabrera (9)
- Mark Born (37)
- Melissa Ratcliff (16)
- Michael Schraa (53)
- Mike Bare (80)
- Nancy VanderMeer (70)
- Nik Rettinger (83)
- Pat Snyder (85)
- Paul Melotik (22)
- Paul Tittl (25)
- Peter Schmidt (6)
- Rick Gundrum (58)
- Rob Brooks (59)
- Rob Summerfield (68)
- Rob Swearingen (34)
- Robin Vos (33)
- Robyn Vining (13)
- Ron Tusler (3)
- Ryan Clancy (19)
- Samba Baldeh (48)
- Scott Allen (82)
- Scott Johnson (33)
- Scott Krug (72)
- Shae Sortwell (2)
- Shelia Stubbs (78)
- Steve Doyle (94)
- Sue Conley (44)
- Supreme Moore Omokunde (17)
- Sylvia Ortiz-Velez (8)
- Terry Katsma (26)
- Tip McGuire (64)
- Tod Ohnstad (65)
- Todd Novak (51)
- Tom Michalski (13)
- Tony Kurtz (41)
- Travis Tranel (49)
- Treig Pronschinske (29)
- Ty Bodden (59)
- Tyler August (31)
- Warren Petryk (93)
- Will Penterman (38)
Not voting · 2
- Angie Sapik (73)
- Shannon Zimmerman (30)
Full history
- Feb 1, 2024 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Mursau, Armstrong, Edming, Green, Penterman and Shankland; cosponsored by Senators Marklein, Quinn, Spreitzer and Testin
- Feb 1, 2024 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Sporting Heritage
- Feb 7, 2024 · Assembly
Public hearing held
- Feb 9, 2024 · Assembly
Fiscal estimate received
- Feb 13, 2024 · Assembly
Executive action taken
- Feb 14, 2024 · Assembly
Representative Jacobson added as a coauthor
- Feb 14, 2024 · Assembly
Report passage recommended by Committee on Sporting Heritage, Ayes 12, Noes 0
- Feb 14, 2024 · Assembly
Referred to committee on Rules
- Feb 20, 2024 · Assembly
Made a special order of business at 10:55 AM on 2-22-2024 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 28
- Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly
Ordered to a third reading
- Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly
Rules suspended
- Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly
Read a third time and passed, Ayes 97, Noes 0
- Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly
Ordered immediately messaged
- Feb 22, 2024 · Assembly
Read a second time
- Feb 23, 2024 · Senate
Received from Assembly
- Feb 26, 2024 · Senate
Read first time and referred to committee on Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage
- Apr 15, 2024 · Senate
Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1