Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF3425

1E Relating to game and fish; modifying the definitions of muzzleloader and
regular firearms seasons; defining the term shelter; requiring the commissioner
of natural resources (DNR) to ensure stamp design and characteristics are
consistent with design and characteristics south by pictorial stamp collectors;
modifying report requirements for the game and fish fund relating to the wild
turkey management account; extending the sunset of the personnel costs
expenditure prohibition for pheasant stamp revenue in the pheasant habitat
improvement account; specifying an account dedication amount from each turkey
license sold; authorizing a license fee refund for identical licenses purchased
in error; permitting a separate pictorial turkey stamp purchase; modifying
replacement licensing provisions for deer hunters; modifying moose, elk and
prairie chicken licenses eligibility; requiring residency for licenses issued
without fees to owners or tenants of agricultural land; authorizing residents
under age 12 to apply for a prairie chicken license and take prairie chicken
without a firearms safety certificate under certain conditions; modifying and
imposing certain resident and nonresident hunting fees; prescribing fees for
resident and nonresident youth taking deer with firearms during muzzleloader
season; modifying firearms safety certificate provisions for taking big game;
modifying provisions relating to firearms and ammunition used to take big game;
prohibiting deer taking by archery while in possession of a firearm; providing
for deer taking by muzzleloader; allowing nonresident youths to take deer of
either sex; modifying baiting prohibition provisions; requiring nontoxic shot
use in certain areas when taking small game; permitting public access site
unlawful structure confiscation; clarifying walleye and northern pike possession
provisions; requiring the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to use the
good cause exemption to amend certain rules to establish a daily and possession
limit for walleye and sauger in the aggregate; repealing migratory waterfowl or
pheasant stamp signature requirement, all season deer licenses and certain
rules
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