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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 35
February 10, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives MURSAU, EDMING, ANDRACA,
BEHNKE, DONOVAN, KITCHENS, KNODL, MAGNAFICI, MAXEY, OHNSTAD, ROZAR,
SINICKI, SPIROS, SUBECK, TUSLER and JACOBSON, cosponsored by Senators
JAMES, COWLES, FELZKOWSKI, MARKLEIN and TAYLOR. Referred to Committee on
Sporting Heritage.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to amend 29.197 (3) of the statutes; relating to: modifying the
designation of a free fishing weekend in January.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Natural Resources to designate the full
weekend prior to the third Monday in January as a weekend on which DNR waives
license and fee requirements to fish.
Under current law, DNR issues approvals that authorize the hunting, fishing,
or trapping of specified wild animals. With limited exceptions, no person may fish
in the waters of the state without the applicable approvals issued by DNR. However,
DNR is required to designate two weekends per year during which DNR waives the
fishing approval requirement. Current law requires that one of these weekends be
the third full weekend in January.
The bill modifies this requirement to instead require DNR to waive the fishing
approval requirements during the full weekend prior to the third Monday in
January, which is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 29.197 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
29.197 (3) WEEKEND EVENTS. In addition to any special event or program
sponsored under sub. (2), the department shall, by rule, designate 2 special event
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weekends per year during which it shall waive the requirement that persons be
issued fishing licenses and pay the applicable fees in order to fish in the waters of this
state. The department shall designate the 3rd full weekend prior to the 3rd Monday
in January as one of the special event weekends. The department shall, by rule,
designate to which inland or outlying waters these waivers shall apply.
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