Hunters, Anglers and Trappers Bill of Rights"

ARTICLE 1 - FINDINGS AND PURPOSE

Specifying certain legislative findings and purpose to create the most possible opportunities for citizens to exercise the right to hunt, fish and take game

ARTICLE 2 - HERITAGE ENHANCEMENT FUIND

Proposing an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, article XI, to provide funding to enhance the population and quality of game and fish in Minnesota and provide hunting and angler access by dedicating the sale and use tax receipts equal to the state sales and use tax of a certain percentage on taxable sales of supplies and equipment used to take game and fish; creating the heritage enhancement council to develop a biennial budget plan for expenditures; specifying certain membership requirements and duties; creating a heritage enhancement fund to be spent on game and fish projects on public and private lands; providing for deposit of revenues

ARTICLE 3 - RIGHT TO ARMS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

Proposing an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, article I, to provide the right of a citizen to keep, bear and use arms for the defense and security of the person, family or home or for lawful hunting, recreation and marksmanship training

ARTICLE 4 - RIGHT TO WEAR FUR AND DISPLAY TROPHY ANIMALS

Proposing an amendment to the Minnesota constitution, article XIII, to provide the right of a citizen to wear furs, pelts, skins or hides from legally taken animals and the right to display legally taken trophy animals on the property of the citizen

ARTICLE 5 - HUNTING AND FISHING

Requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to administer a conservation partners program to provide grants to local sporting and conservation clubs for projects to enhance the population and quality of game and fish and fund hunter and angler recruitment and retention program; specifying certain grant, application and rule requirements; specifying certain duties of the commissioner relating to ensuring access to hunting and fishing on lands; creating the forest legacy council to develop a biennial budget plan for expenditures, specifying certain membership requirements and duties; creating a forest legacy account to be spent on game and fish projects on public and private lands; authorizing and providing for optional fishing license stocking donations for stocking walleye, north pike, muskellunge and trout species in public waters not subject to commercial netting by Indian tribes, specifying certain fee and issuance requirements; modifying certain requirements for resident lifetime angling and sporting licenses and nonresident lifetime angling licenses; appropriating money for implementation requirements; repealing a certain provision relating to trout and salmon stamp validation exceptions

ARTICLE 6 - AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION

Providing for an automatic voter registration of applicants for game and fish licenses, specifying secretary of state and commissioner of natural resources (DNR) requirements; specifying certain application, registration and notice requirements; appropriating money to the secretary of state, the commissioner of natural resources and the supreme court
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