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2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 885
January 2, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives SHANKLAND, CONSIDINE, C.
ANDERSON, EMERSON, JACOBSON, OHNSTAD, PALMERI, RATCLIFF and SHELTON,
cosponsored by Senators SMITH, SPREITZER, HESSELBEIN, ROYS, TAYLOR and
AGARD. Referred to Committee on Sporting Heritage.
1 AN ACT to amend 20.370 (1) (mu); and to create 29.063 (8) of the statutes;
2 relating to: chronic wasting disease sampling and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law allows the Department of Natural Resources to manage and
provide funding to conduct testing for chronic wasting disease in cervids, which are
any species of deer or elk that are present in the wild and are not farm-raised deer.
Currently, DNR administers a program under which it provides self-service chronic
wasting disease sampling kiosks where hunters may drop off deer carcass for
sampling. This bill codifies this program by requiring DNR to establish and
administer it and provides $200,000 in the 2023-25 fiscal biennium for the program.
The bill allows DNR to contract with private entities to conduct the sampling and to
pay private entities per sample taken.
For further information see the state 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:
3 SECTION 1. 20.370 (1) (mu) of the statutes is amended to read:
4 20.370 (1) (mu) General program operations — state funds. The amounts in
5 the schedule for general program operations that are conducted under ss. 23.09 to
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1 23.11, 27.01, 30.203, 30.277, and 90.21, and chs. 29 and 169, for activities conducted
2 under the ecological inventory and monitoring program of the endangered resources
3 program, for the aquatic and terrestrial resources inventory under s. 23.09 (2) (km),
4 for providing the signage required under s. 23.118, for the chronic wasting disease
5 sampling kiosk program under s. 29.063 (8), and for payments of $53,700 in each
6 fiscal year, to be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.285 (1) (k), to the
7 University of Wisconsin System for outdoor skills training under s. 29.598.
8 SECTION 2. 29.063 (8) of the statutes is created to read:
9 29.063 (8) The department shall establish and administer a program under
10 which it provides self-service chronic wasting disease sampling kiosks at locations
11 determined by the department, where hunters may drop off deer carcass parts for
12 sampling. The department may contract with private entities to conduct the
13 sampling and may pay private entities per sample taken.
14 SECTION 3.0Fiscal changes.
15 (1) CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE SELF-SERVICE SAMPLING KIOSKS. In the schedule
16 under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of natural resources
17 under s. 20.370 (1) (mu), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2023-24 is increased by
18 $100,000 for the self-service chronic wasting disease sampling kiosk program under
19 s. 29.063 (8). In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the
20 department of natural resources under s. 20.370 (1) (mu), the dollar amount for fiscal
21 year 2024-25 is increased by $100,000 for the self-service chronic wasting disease
22 sampling kiosk program under s. 29.063 (8).
23 SECTION 4.0Effective date.
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ASSEMBLY BILL 885 SECTION 4
1 (1) This act takes effect on the day after publication, or on the 2nd day after
2 publication of the 2023 biennial budget act, whichever is later.
3 (END)


Statutes affected:
Bill Text: 20.370(1)(mu), 20.370