2E Relating to environment, natural resources, and game and fish

ARTICLE 1 - ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Authorizing certain department of administration payments; requiring game and fish licenses to be available by electronic transaction; providing for apprentice riders; modifying local government trail authority and enforcement provisions; providing for an appropriation to and continued operation of state parks and recreation areas and the Minnesota zoological garden when biennial appropriations have not been enacted; modifying aquatic invasive species provisions and establishing the aquatic invasive species prevention program; modifying certain bait provisions, certain reporting and assessment requirements, and board of water and soil resources (BWSR) voting membership, orders, bylaws, dispute committee membership, and local water management functions; allowing comprehensive watershed management plan, water plan extensions, and restoration; modifying the wetland conservation act; allowing BWSR to adopt or amend rules establishing a program for regulating dredged and fill material discharge into waters; clarifying certain environmental review; eliminating certain fees; expanding the solid waste definition; modifying certain standards for stationary sources; extending prohibition on new open air swine basins; modifying acid deposition control requirements and sewage sludge management; providing for alternative local standards for subsurface sewage treatment systems; authorizing wood by-product grants; authorizing the discontinuance of the Hennepin conservation district and authorizing the transfer of duties; extending certain environment and natural resources trust fund appropriations; requiring a forest resources council study and a metropolitan waste disposal restrictions report; repealing certain natural resources, water pollution, packaging toxics, and emissions-reduction attainment reports, the nursery and tree improvement plan, and the stream protection and improvement loan program

ARTICLE 2 - GAME AND FISH

Relating to natural resources; revising the department of natural resources
(DNR) mission; allowing harvest from infested waters for certain fish; modifying bear stand requirements; allowing anterless deer taking without lottery application; restricting firing of firearms near livestock; exempting military personnel and veterans from the firearms safety certificate requirement; allowing scopes on muzzleloaders; exempting venison donations from food laws and requiring labeling; modifying beaver removal procedure; regulating body-gripping traps; authorizing the commissioner to make winter trout seasons and requiring rulemaking; providing for taking wolf, requiring a wolf hunting or wolf trapping license; modifying requirements to take and transport wild animals; modifying restrictions on discharging firearms and bows; authorizing the use of mechanical or electronic assistance to hold and discharge firearms or bows by physically disabled; modifying predator control program; modifying deer baiting restrictions; requiring rulemaking for restitution value for wolves and use of snares; repealing certain provisions relating to hunting and fishing license
reciprocity with Wisconsin, collection of deer and elk in bovine tuberculosis
zone, fish and turtles from rough fish removal dedication of receipts, waterfowl hunting on Muskrat Lake, gray wolf hunting penalties, youth deer license issuance, fishing regulations executive order authority, gray wolves snaring permit requirement, lakes with unbalanced fish populations; appropriating money

ARTICLE 3 - GAME AND FISH LICENSE FEES

Relating to game and fish; increasing certain game and fish license fees;
modifying certain hunting and fishing requirements; establishing a walk-in
access program to provide public access to wildlife habitat on private land for hunting; requiring a walk-in access hunter validation fee; requiring the
commissioner of management and budget (MMB) to transfer money from the game and fish fund to the invasive species account; appropriating money; repealing certain provisions related to license requirements and exemptions relating to age and a certain provision relating to the conservation angling license
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