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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 446
September 28, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives TITTL, C. ANDERSON, BEHNKE,
BILLINGS, GOEBEN, GUSTAFSON, JACOBSON, JOERS, KITCHENS, MELOTIK,
MICHALSKI, ORTIZ-VELEZ, RATCLIFF, SAPIK, SHANKLAND, SNODGRASS, STUBBS,
SUBECK, TUSLER, VANDERMEER, CABRERA, SINICKI, DRAKE and PALMERI,
cosponsored by Senators CABRAL-GUEVARA, BALLWEG and TAYLOR. Referred to
Committee on Environment.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to amend 1.10 (4); and to create 1.10 (3) (w) of the statutes; relating
to: designating the monarch butterfly as the state butterfly.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law designates a variety of state symbols and requires the Wisconsin
Blue Book to include information about them. This bill designates the monarch as
the Wisconsin state butterfly and requires the Wisconsin Blue Book to include that
information.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 1.10 (3) (w) of the statutes is created to read:
1.10 (3) (w) The monarch butterfly is the state butterfly.
SECTION 2. 1.10 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
1.10 (4) The Wisconsin Blue Book shall include the information contained in
this section concerning the state song, ballad, waltz, dance, beverage, tree, grain,
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flower, bird, fish, animal, domestic animal, wildlife animal, dog, insect, fossil,
mineral, rock, soil, fruit, tartan, pastry, dairy product, and herb, and butterfly.
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