1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to game and fish; placing a surcharge on deer 
  1.3             licenses for the 1997 deer season; providing for 
  1.4             emergency deer feeding; appropriating money. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  [1997 DEER LICENSE SURCHARGE.] 
  1.7      A surcharge of $2.50 is added to the license fees under 
  1.8   Minnesota Statutes, section 97A.475, subdivisions 2, clauses 
  1.9   (4), (5), and (9), and 3, clauses (2), (3), and (7), for the 
  1.10  1997 license year.  Revenue from the surcharge shall be credited 
  1.11  to the game and fish fund. 
  1.12     Sec. 2.  [APPROPRIATION.] 
  1.13     $1,500,000 is appropriated from the game and fish fund to 
  1.14  the commissioner of natural resources for emergency deer feeding 
  1.15  in areas of the state affected by severe weather.  This 
  1.16  appropriation is in addition to money appropriated in Laws 1995, 
  1.17  chapter 220, section 5, subdivision 7, and Laws 1996, chapter 
  1.18  294, section 2.  The sum is available until expended. 
  1.19     Sec. 3.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  1.20     This act is effective the day following final enactment.