Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB885 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 885
5	5	January 2, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives SHANKLAND, CONSIDINE, C.
6	6	ANDERSON, EMERSON, JACOBSON, OHNSTAD, PALMERI, RATCLIFF and SHELTON,
7	7	cosponsored by Senators SMITH, SPREITZER, HESSELBEIN, ROYS, TAYLOR and
8	8	AGARD. Referred to Committee on Sporting Heritage.
9	9	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
10	10	AN ACT to amend 20.370 (1) (mu); and to create 29.063 (8) of the statutes;
11	11	relating to: chronic wasting disease sampling and making an appropriation.
12	12	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
13	13	Current law allows the Department of Natural Resources to manage and
14	14	provide funding to conduct testing for chronic wasting disease in cervids, which are
15	15	any species of deer or elk that are present in the wild and are not farm-raised deer.
16	16	Currently, DNR administers a program under which it provides self-service chronic
17	17	wasting disease sampling kiosks where hunters may drop off deer carcass for
18	18	sampling. This bill codifies this program by requiring DNR to establish and
19	19	administer it and provides $200,000 in the 2023-25 fiscal biennium for the program.
20	20	The bill allows DNR to contract with private entities to conduct the sampling and to
21	21	pay private entities per sample taken.
22	22	For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
23	23	an appendix to this bill.
24	24	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
25	25	enact as follows:
26	26	SECTION 1. 20.370 (1) (mu) of the statutes is amended to read:
27	27	20.370 (1) (mu) General program operations — state funds. The amounts in
28	28	the schedule for general program operations that are conducted under ss. 23.09 to
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35	35	SECTION 1 ASSEMBLY BILL 885
36	36	23.11, 27.01, 30.203, 30.277, and 90.21, and chs. 29 and 169, for activities conducted
37	37	under the ecological inventory and monitoring program of the endangered resources
38	38	program, for the aquatic and terrestrial resources inventory under s. 23.09 (2) (km),
39	39	for providing the signage required under s. 23.118, for the chronic wasting disease
40	40	sampling kiosk program under s. 29.063 (8), and for payments of $53,700 in each
41	41	fiscal year, to be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.285 (1) (k), to the
42	42	University of Wisconsin System for outdoor skills training under s. 29.598.
43	43	SECTION 2. 29.063 (8) of the statutes is created to read:
44	44	29.063 (8) The department shall establish and administer a program under
45	45	which it provides self-service chronic wasting disease sampling kiosks at locations
46	46	determined by the department, where hunters may drop off deer carcass parts for
47	47	sampling. The department may contract with private entities to conduct the
48	48	sampling and may pay private entities per sample taken.
49	49	SECTION 3.0Fiscal changes.
50	50	(1) CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE SELF-SERVICE SAMPLING KIOSKS. In the schedule
51	51	under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of natural resources
52	52	under s. 20.370 (1) (mu), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2023-24 is increased by
53	53	$100,000 for the self-service chronic wasting disease sampling kiosk program under
54	54	s. 29.063 (8). In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the
55	55	department of natural resources under s. 20.370 (1) (mu), the dollar amount for fiscal
56	56	year 2024-25 is increased by $100,000 for the self-service chronic wasting disease
57	57	sampling kiosk program under s. 29.063 (8).
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84	84	SECTION 4
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86	86	(1) This act takes effect on the day after publication, or on the 2nd day after
87	87	publication of the 2023 biennial budget act, whichever is later.
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