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2003 - 2004 LEGISLATURE
October 6, 2003 - Introduced by Representatives Boyle, Johnsrud, Freese,
Musser, Gronemus, Hines, Staskunas, Ward, Ziegelbauer, Hahn, Shilling,
Albers, Krawczyk, Bies
and Loeffelholz, cosponsored by Senator Schultz.
Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.
AB566,1,3 1An Act to repeal 29.889 (7m) (am) and 29.889 (7m) (b) 2.; and to amend 29.889
2(7m) (a) and 29.889 (7m) (b) 3. of the statutes; relating to: wildlife damage
3abatement assistance.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, if a person who owns, leases, or controls land where wildlife
damage occurs, that person may apply with the county for a wildlife damage claim
payment and for assistance with wildlife damage abatement. Currently, if the
person receives a wildlife damage claim payment and wildlife damage abatement
assistance, the person must permit hunting on the property where the wildlife
damage occurred. The only exception to this requirement to allow hunting is if the
person who receives the payment of assistance does not have authority to control
entry onto the land where the wildlife damage occurred.
This bill continues to require a person who receives any wildlife damage claim
payments to open the land involved in the wildlife damage to hunters but allows a
person who receives only wildlife damage abatement assistance and no payments to
not open the property involved in the wildlife damage to hunting.
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:
AB566, s. 1
1Section 1. 29.889 (7m) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB566,2,102 29.889 (7m) (a) Requirements. A person who receives wildlife damage
3abatement assistance or
wildlife damage claim payments and any other person who
4owns, leases or controls the land where the wildlife damage occurred for which the
5wildlife damage claim payment was made
shall permit hunting of the type of wild
6animals causing the wildlife damage on that land and on contiguous land under the
7same ownership, lease or control, subject to par. (ae). In order to satisfy the
8requirement to permit hunting under this subsection, the land shall be open to
9hunting during the appropriate open season. The county, with the assistance of the
10department, shall determine the acreage of land suitable for hunting.
AB566, s. 2 11Section 2. 29.889 (7m) (am) of the statutes is repealed.
AB566, s. 3 12Section 3. 29.889 (7m) (b) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
AB566, s. 4 13Section 4. 29.889 (7m) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB566,2,1614 29.889 (7m) (b) 3. Payment of the costs for reviewing and approving the wildlife
15damage claim or wildlife damage abatement assistance and the costs of investigating
16the failure to permit hunting on the land.
AB566, s. 5 17Section 5. Initial applicability.
AB566,2,1918 (1) This act first applies to wildlife damage abatement assistance provided on
19the effective date of this subsection.
AB566,2,2020 (End)
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