1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to game and fish; requiring fisheries 
  1.3             committee meetings to be open to certain attendees; 
  1.4             amending Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 97C.401, by 
  1.5             adding a subdivision. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 97C.401, is 
  1.8   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
  1.9      Subd. 3.  [1837 CEDED TERRITORY FISHERIES COMMITTEE.] Any 
  1.10  meeting of the 1837 Ceded Territory Fisheries Committee, created 
  1.11  under Protocol No. 1 as a result of Mille Lacs Band v. 
  1.12  Minnesota, No. 3-94-1226 (D. Minn. March 29, 1996), must be open 
  1.13  to the following attendees: 
  1.14     (1) three representatives of the media, to include one 
  1.15  representative from the Lake Mille Lacs area, with two others 
  1.16  chosen by lottery conducted by the commissioner of natural 
  1.17  resources; 
  1.18     (2) two members of the Lake Mille Lacs Fisheries Input 
  1.19  Group; 
  1.20     (3) the chairpersons of the house and senate committees 
  1.21  having jurisdiction over natural resources policy or their 
  1.22  designees; and 
  1.23     (4) a biologist who is not an employee of the Department of 
  1.24  Natural Resources.