Date of enactment:
2023 Assembly Bill 34 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT to amend 29.336 (2) (b) and 29.336 (2) (c) of the statutes; relating to: restrictions on baiting deer in counties
based on chronic wasting disease or bovine tuberculosis.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 29.336 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended
to read:
29.336 (2) (b) A county in which a positive test for
chronic wasting disease or bovine tuberculosis has
been confirmed in any captive or free−roaming domes-
tic or wild animal after December 31, 1997. A rule pro-
mulgated under this paragraph may not prohibit feed-
ing deer for longer than 36 months after any positive
test for chronic wasting disease or bovine tuberculosis
has been confirmed.
SECTION 2. 29.336 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended
to read:
29.336 (2) (c) A county in which the county or a
portion of the county is within a 10−mile radius of the
known location of a captive or free−roaming domestic
or wild animal that has been tested and confirmed to be
positive for chronic wasting disease or bovine tubercu-
losis after December 31, 1997. A rule promulgated
under this paragraph may not prohibit feeding deer for
longer than 24 months after any positive test for
chronic wasting disease or bovine tuberculosis has
been confirmed.
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”