How SB 548 changes current law

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The bill establishes and funds a chronic wasting disease sampling station program under the Department of Natural Resources.

• 20.370 (1) (mu)

  General program operations — state funds. The amounts in the schedule for general program operations that are conducted under ss. 23.09 to 23.11, 27.01, 30.203, 30.277, and 90.21, and chs. 29 and 169, for activities conducted under the ecological inventory and monitoring program of the endangered resources program, for the aquatic and terrestrial resources inventory under s. 23.09 (2) (km), for providing the signage required under s. 23.118, and for payments of $53,700 in each fiscal year, to be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.285 (1) (k), to the University of Wisconsin System for outdoor skills training under s. 29.598. → General program operations — state funds. The amounts in the schedule for general program operations that are conducted under ss. 23.09 to 23.11, 27.01, 30.203, 30.277, and 90.21, and chs. 29 and 169, for activities conducted under the ecological inventory and monitoring program of the endangered resources program, for the aquatic and terrestrial resources inventory under s. 23.09 (2) (km), for providing the signage required under s. 23.118, for the chronic wasting disease sampling station program under s. 29.063 (7), and for payments of $53,700 in each fiscal year, to be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.285 (1) (k), to the University of Wisconsin System for outdoor skills training under s. 29.598.

  This amendment includes funding for the chronic wasting disease sampling station program within the existing appropriations for general program operations.

• 29.063

  The department shall establish and administer a program under which it provides, at locations determined by the department, chronic wasting disease sampling stations, including self-service kiosks, where hunters may drop off deer carcass parts for chronic wasting disease sampling. The department may contract with private entities to conduct the sampling and may pay private entities per sample taken.

  This new section establishes a formal program for chronic wasting disease sampling, including the use of kiosks and private contractors.