Committee Agenda

Committee:    Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources
Room:    423
Date:    Tuesday, February 18, 2003
Time:    10:00 AM



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         SB 212     revise certain provisions related to hunting from public rights-of-way.
             Senators Koskan, Dennert, Duenwald, Duxbury, and Symens and Representatives Juhnke, Garnos, Smidt, Teupel, and Van Gerpen

         HB 1013*     authorize the Department of Agriculture to enter into mutual aid agreements with other fire suppression organizations.
             The Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources at the request of the Department of Agriculture

         HB 1020*     authorize the Game, Fish and Parks Commission to promulgate rules to permit certain mobility-impaired hunters and disabled hunters to hunt from a stationary motor vehicle and to permit certain persons to operate and ride on an off-road vehicle while in possession of a loaded and uncased firearm.
             The Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources at the request of the Department of Game, Fish and Parks

         HCR 1007     Urging the United States Department of Agriculture to implement country of origin labeling for beef.
             Representatives Lintz, Fryslie, Garnos, Hanson, Hunhoff, Juhnke, Klaudt, Madsen, Pederson (Gordon), Peterson (Jim), Rhoden, and Teupel and Senators Koskan, Bogue, de Hueck, Duenwald, Duxbury, Ham, Kleven, Kloucek, Symens, and Vitter

NOTE: The above bills will be taken up in this order for a hearing on the date noted. If circumstances do not permit a hearing on this date then a hearing will be held at a future meeting of the committee to be determined by the chair. Action on a bill may come at any time after it has had a hearing.

BILLS FOR POSSIBLE ACTION WHICH HAVE HAD PRIOR HEARING.

         SB 219     require the clearing and thinning of undergrowth and hazardous fuels in certain wooded areas and to provide a penalty for violation thereof.
             Senator Vitter

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LARRY DIEDRICH, Chair