HOUSE BILL NO. 6556

A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

by amending sections 41301, 41302, and 41303 (MCL 324.41301, 324.41302, and 324.41303), as amended by 2018 PA 451.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 41301. (1) As used in this part:

(a) "Amphibian" means any frog, toad, or salamander of the class Amphibia.

(b) "Aquatic", except as used in subdivision (q), (r), describes an amphibian, crustacean, fish, mollusk, reptile, wiggler, or aquatic plant.

(c) "Aquatic plant" means a submergent, emergent, obligate wetland, facultative wetland, or floating-leaf plant or a fragment thereof, including a seed or other propagule. Aquatic plant does not include wild rice (Zizania aquatica or Zizania palustris).

(d) "Crustacean" means freshwater crayfish, shrimp, or prawn of the order Decapoda.

(e) "Genetically engineered" refers to an organism whose genome, chromosomal or extrachromosomal, is modified permanently and heritably, using recombinant nucleic acid techniques, or the progeny of such an organism.

(f) "Introduce", with reference to an organism, means to knowingly and willfully stock, place, plant, release, or allow the release of the organism in this state at any specific location where the organism is not already naturalized.

(g) "MISIN" means the Midwest Invasive Species Information Network, a regional effort to provide early detection and rapid response to invasive species that is led by researchers in Michigan State University's department of entomology along with partners from the Midwest region, or a successor organization.

(h) (g) "Mollusk" means any mollusk of the classes Bivalvia and Gastropoda.

(i) (h) "Native" means indigenous to any location in this state.

(j) (i) "Nonaquatic" describes a bird, insect other than a wiggler, or mammal.

(k) (j) "Nonnative" means not native.

(l) (k) "Prohibited species", subject to section 41302, means any of the following:

(i) Any of the following prohibited species of aquatic plant, including a hybrid or genetically engineered variant of the species:

(A) African oxygen weed (Lagarosiphon major).

(B) Brazilian elodea (Egeria densa).

(C) Cylindro (Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii).

(D) European frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae).

(E) Fanwort (Cabomba caroliniana).

(F) Giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta, auriculata, biloba, or herzogii).

(G) Hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata).

(H) Parrot's feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum).

(I) Starry stonewort (Nitellopsis obtusa).

(J) Water chestnut (Trapa natans).

(K) Yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltata).

(ii) Any of the following prohibited species of terrestrial plant, including a hybrid or genetically engineered variant of the species or a fragment, including a seed or other propagule, of the species or of a hybrid or genetically engineered variant:

(A) Giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum).

(B) Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica).

(iii) The following prohibited bird species, including a hybrid or genetically engineered variant of the species or an egg of the species or of a hybrid or genetically engineered variant: Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto).

(iv) The following prohibited crustacean species, including a hybrid or genetically engineered variant of the species or an egg of the species or of a hybrid or genetically engineered variant: rusty crayfish (Faxonious resticus, formerly Orconectes rusticus).

(v) Any of the following prohibited fish species, including a hybrid or genetically engineered variant of the species or an egg of the species or of a hybrid or genetically engineered variant:

(A) Bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis).

(B) Bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus).

(C) Black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus).

(D) Eurasian ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernuus).

(E) Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus).

(F) Ide (Leuciscus idus).

(G) Japanese weatherfish (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus).

(H) Round goby (Neogobius melanostomus).

(I) Rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus).

(J) Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys