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2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE
December 7, 2015 - Introduced by Senators Moulton,
Marklein, Miller, Olsen,
Ringhand and Wirch, cosponsored by Representatives Kleefisch, Bernier,
Born, R. Brooks, Considine, Czaja, Danou, Edming, Gannon, Kahl, Kremer,
Krug, T. Larson, Milroy, A. Ott, Rohrkaste, Shankland, Skowronski,
Spreitzer, Subeck, Tittl and Zamarripa. Referred to Committee on Sporting
Heritage, Mining, and Forestry.
SB444,1,2
1An Act to create 29.322 of the statutes;
relating to: authorizing a person to
2shoot to kill an animal wounded by certain hunters.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill allows a person, under certain circumstances, to kill an animal shot
and wounded by another person while hunting.
Generally, current law prohibits a person from hunting unless the person holds
a license, permit, tag, or other approval issued by the Department of Natural
Resources. Current law also imposes various other restrictions on hunters,
including season restrictions and bag and possession limits, that vary depending on
the animal for which a hunting approval is issued.
This bill allows an adult to shoot to kill an animal lawfully shot by a youth but
not killed. The bill provides that if a youth mortally wounds an animal while lawfully
hunting, and if the youth requests that the adult shoot to kill the animal, the adult
may do so as long as the adult has any valid hunting approval. Under current law,
the hunting mentorship program allows a person with a valid hunting license to hunt
without obtaining a hunter safety certificate if he or she hunts with a qualified
mentor and meets certain other conditions. This bill allows a person serving as a
qualified mentor under the hunter mentorship program to shoot to kill an animal
mortally wounded but not killed by a person for whom he or she is serving as a
mentor. The mentor's authority to shoot to kill the animal applies only if the person
who wounded the animal requests that the mentor shoot to kill the animal.
Under the bill, a person who kills an animal for another person as authorized
under the bill is exempt from any bag or possession limits that would otherwise apply
to the hunting of the animal killed.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
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1Section
1. 29.322 of the statutes is created to read:
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229.322 Taking certain wounded animals.
(1) In this section, "youth"
3means a person under the age of 18.
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4(2) A person who holds any valid hunting approval may shoot to kill, with a
5firearm, bow and arrow, or crossbow, any animal shot and mortally wounded by
6another person if any of the following apply:
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(a) The other person is a youth and all of the following apply:
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1. The youth wounded the animal while lawfully hunting.
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2. The person shooting to kill the animal is an adult.
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3. The youth requested that the adult shoot to kill the animal.
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(b) The other person was hunting with a qualified mentor under s. 29.592 when
12he or she wounded the animal and he or she requested that the qualified mentor
13shoot to kill the animal.
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14(3) A person who shoots to kill an animal as authorized under sub. (2) is exempt
15under this section from any bag, possession, or size limit established by the
16department.
