Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF1543

Providing for the management of gray (timber) wolves; imposing a criminal
penalty for violating game and fish laws relating to wolves and setting the
restitution value; authorizing the destruction of gray wolves in defense of
human life, livestock or dogs, specifying certain evidence and reporting
requirements; authorizing the harassment of gray wolves under certain
conditions; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to investigate
reports of the taking of gray wolves and to produce monthly reports of
investigative activities, requiring livestock best management practices
recommendations under certain conditions; prohibiting an open season on gray
wolves and the release of wolf-dog hybrids or captive gray wolves without a
permit from the commissioner; prohibiting the violation of federal laws relating
to wolves; authorizing the commissioner to adopt implementation and enforcement
rules and requiring commissioner adoption of a gray wolf management plan,
requiring a report to the legislature on the plan by a certain date; specifying
certain term change instructions to the revisor of statutes (mk)