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Oklahoma’s 57th Legislature still has four active wildlife-related bills to process before adjournment the end of May.

The active bills include a “cleanup” bill that involves increased expediency in court paperwork, one that adds a week to the deer gun season on private lands only, one that erases all Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation regulations designed to protect wild herds from chronic wasting disease, and one that erases provisions requested by trappers and instead resurrects bills to create nonresident landowner licenses for the landowners and their family members, according to the Wildlife Department’s weekly legislative update.

Of the initial 36 bills filed this session, the governor so far has signed two and vetoed one.

Bills signed include Senate Bill 511, by Sen. Casey Murdock, R-Felt and Rep. John Pfeiffer, R-Orlando, which removed the Wildlife Department from chronic wasting disease approval authority over import of deer and elk.

Also signed was SB 923, which creates a three-day special permit for landowners to host veterans and charitable events for residents or nonresidents with hunting or fishing license but under a permit issued by the Wildlife Department for a fee of no more than $500.