SF4941 • 2026

Motorized waterfowl boats use authorization in wildlife management areas under certain conditions

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Westrom, Green, Drazkowski
Last action: 2026-04-07
Official status: Introduction and first reading
Effective date: Not listed

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Motorized waterfowl boats use authorization in wildlife management areas under certain conditions

What This Bill Does

Motorized waterfowl boats use authorization in wildlife management areas under certain conditions

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Bill History

2026-04-07 House
Introduction and first reading

Official Summary Text

Motorized waterfowl boats use authorization in wildlife management areas under certain conditions

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A bill for an act

relating to game and fish; allowing the use of motorized waterfowl boats in wildlife

management areas under certain conditions; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024,

section 97A.133, by adding a subdivision.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 97A.133, is amended by adding a subdivision

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Subd. 3a.

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Motorized waterfowl boats within wildlife management areas.

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A person

may use a motorized waterfowl boat during the waterfowl-hunting season in a wildlife

management area if the person is:

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(1) age 65 and over;

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(2) in compliance with section 97B.805; and

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(3) in a wildlife management area located south of U.S. Highway 10 beginning at the

west boundary of the state, thence along U.S. Highway 10 to the east boundary of the state.

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Sec. 2.
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MOTORIZED WATERFOWL BOAT USE IN FEDERAL WATERFOWL

PRODUCTION AREAS.
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The commissioner of natural resources must notify the United States Fish and Wildlife

Service of the ability to use a motorized waterfowl boat in a wildlife management area under

Minnesota Statutes, section 97A.133, subdivision 3a, and request that federal regulations

for waterfowl production areas be modified to allow for similar use of motorized waterfowl

boats.

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