LRB-2115/P1
EHS:amn
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hamer, BB0424 - Creating a bureau of natural resources science
For 2019-2021 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
natural resources
Fish, game, and wildlife
1. Bureau of natural resources science
This bill creates in DNR, under the division responsible for fish, wildlife, and parks, a bureau of natural resources science and requires DNR to convert the existing office of applied science into the bureau of natural resources science. Under the bill, the bureau director reports to and serves as the science advisor to the secretary of natural resources.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. 15.345 (9) of the statutes is created to read:
15.345 (9) Bureau of natural resources science. There is created in the division responsible for fish, wildlife, and parks in the department of natural resources a bureau of natural resources science. The bureau director shall report to, and serve as the science advisor to, the secretary of natural resources.
Section 9132. Nonstatutory provisions; Natural Resources.
(1) Bureau of natural resources science. The department of natural resources shall convert the existing office of applied science into the bureau of natural resources science created under s. 15.345 (9).
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