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Proposed wildlife bills face deadline this week

The coming week is a deadline week for wildlife bills in the state legislature. Bills must be heard in opposite chambers of their origin or they go dormant.

The Senate Agriculture and Wildlife Committee meets at 10 a.m. Monday in room 511-A and will hear three wildlife bills: HB 1854, which requires confiscated licenses be handed to game wardens; HB 2029, which creates a three-day special event hunting permit but also has a committee substitute that replaces the permit with a 23-day deer gun season set in statute; and HB 2324, which creates a nonresident landowner combo license for the same price as a resident license.

As of Friday no agenda was set for the House Wildlife Committee. That meeting, if scheduled, will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in room 206.

The House Rules Committee plans to hear SB 551, a bill to remove Wildlife Department authority to regulate Canadian cervid imports for chronic wasting disease concerns. That meeting will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in room 512-A.

SB 566 (guiding on public lands) and SB 923 (three-day special event hunting permit) are both awaiting consideration on the House floor. The floor agenda is usually posted the evening prior.