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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
SENATE BILL 280 By: Woods
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to wildlife; creating the Feral Swine
Eradication and Control Grant Program; stating
purpose of program; stating e ligibility for grants;
authorizing the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture,
Food, and Forestry to implement certain program;
requiring collaboration from other Oklahoma entities;
setting maximum funds; stating use of funds;
providing for indemnity of the Department from
damages resulting from implementation of this
program; exempting indemni ty from certain issues;
providing for the promulgation of rules; allowing the
Department to provide exemptions from certain
permitting; providing for codification; and providing
an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 6 -615 of Title 2, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. There is hereby created the Feral Swine Er adication and
Control Grant Program. The purpose of the grant program shall be to
provide Oklahomans with education, equipment, and services
associated with the eradication and control of feral swine in
Oklahoma.
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B. The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry
shall, through collaboration with the Department of Wildlife
Conservation and the Oklahoma Conservation Commission , implement a
program or programs for the d istribution of resources to assist with
the capture or deterrence of feral swine populations affecting
Oklahoma landowners or land lessors.
C. The total maximum grant fund shall be no more than Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00). The funds shall be derived
from legislative appropriations and other public and private sources
of monies including other grants and matching funds received by this
state from federal sources . The grants awarded through the Feral
Swine Eradication and Control Grant Program shall only be available
for the equipment, education , and services provide d to Oklahomans
for the eradication of feral swine .
D. The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry,
or any employee or agent of the Department shall not be liable for
damages in any civil suit or subject to criminal prosecution for any
injury resulting from the program, unless the injury or death is a
direct result of the gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional
misconduct of the Department or any employee or agent of the
Department.
E. The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, an d Forestry
shall promulgate the rules necessary for the implementation of this
program along with any educational material necessary for the proper
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eradication of feral swine for the landowners and land lessors
through this program as not to violate the provisions of subsection
D of this section. The Department may allow exemptions for
landowners and land lessors participating in this program from the
permits required to control nuisance and invasive species set for th
in Title 29 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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