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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hamer, BB0363 - Waterfowl stamp cost
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Natural Resources
Fish, game, and wildlife
Waterfowl stamp fee and uses
This bill raises the fee for a waterfowl hunting stamp from $6.75 to $11.75 and expands the authorized uses of the moneys received from fees.
Under current law generally, no person may hunt waterfowl unless he or she is issued a conservation patron license, a hunting license authorizing the hunting of small game and a waterfowl hunting stamp, or a sports license and a waterfowl hunting stamp. DNR is required to spend 67 percent of the money received from fees for waterfowl hunting stamps for developing, managing, preserving, restoring, and maintaining wetland habitat and for producing waterfowl and ecologically related species of wildlife. Under the bill, DNR may also provide those moneys to nonprofit conservation organizations and local units of government for developing and restoring wetland habitat.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 29.191 (1) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
29.191 (1) (b) 1. `Habitat.' The department shall expend 67 percent of the money received from fees for waterfowl hunting stamps for developing, managing, preserving, restoring and maintaining wetland habitat and for producing waterfowl and ecologically related species of wildlife. The department may provide money under this subdivision to nonprofit conservation organizations and local units of government for developing and restoring wetland habitat.
Section
2. 29.563 (2) (e) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
29.563 (2) (e) 3. Waterfowl: $6.75 $11.75.
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