Read the full stored bill text
Wisconsin Legislature: SB505: Bill Text
Skip navigation
Home
Documents
Senate
Assembly
Committees
Service Agencies
Docs
Options
Help
2025 Biennium
Statutes
Admin. Rules
Indices
Miscellaneous
Archives
Home
Bill, Rule, and Appointment Histories
Senators
Representatives
Committees
Text of Introduced Proposals
Amendment Text
Acts
Veto Messages
Enrolled Bills
Votes
Assembly and Senate Floor Calendars
Schedule of Committee Activities
Assembly and Senate Journals
Committee Records (ROCPs)
Legislative Rules
All Session-Related Documents
Subject Index to Acts
Subject Index to Legislation
Subject Index to Journals
Author Index to Legislation
Subject Index to Clearinghouse Rules
Miscellaneous Budget Documents
Executive Orders
Rulings of the Chair
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules
Opinions of the Attorney General
Town Law Forms
Law
Districts
Session
Drafting Files
Feeds
Preferences
Show tree
Hide tree
Feedback
Help
Home
Senate Home
Senators
Committees
Session
Chief Clerk
Sergeant at Arms
Civics Education
Human Resources
Assembly Home
Representatives
Committees
Session
Chief Clerk
Sergeant at Arms
Human Resources
Schedule
Joint
Senate
Assembly
Study
Legislative Audit Bureau
Legislative Council
Legislative Fiscal Bureau
Legislative Human Resources Office
Legislative Reference Bureau
Legislative Technology Services Bureau
Menu
»
2025
»
Related Documents
»
Proposal Text
»
SB505: Bill Text
Up
Up
2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
LRB-3140/1
ZDW:cjs
2025 SENATE BILL 505
October 2, 2025 - Introduced by Senators
Smith
,
Ratcliff
,
Hesselbein
,
Jacque
and
Keyeski
, cosponsored by Representatives
Goodwin
,
Mursau
,
Sinicki
,
Stroud
and
Stubbs
. Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions and Sporting Heritage.
SB505,1,3
1
An Act
to create
29.173 (2) (c) of the statutes;
relating to:
authorizing
2
resident disabled veterans to hunt deer of either sex in any open firearm
3
season.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, the Department of Natural Resources issues approvals that authorize the hunting, fishing, and trapping of wild animals. Current law confers certain hunting and fishing benefits upon residents who are members of the U.S. armed forces who are in active service with the U.S. armed forces outside the state and on furlough or leave within the state. One benefit is that a qualified service member who holds a current resident deer hunting license may hunt deer of either sex during any season open to hunting of deer with firearms.
This bill provides the same benefit to a resident disabled veteran, which is defined to mean a veteran who is receiving disability compensation benefits for disabilities that result in a disability rating that is 50 percent or greater or is receiving disability compensation benefits due to being individually unemployable.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SB505,1
1
Section
1
.
29.173 (2) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
SB505,2,10
2
29.173
(2)
(c) A disabled veteran holding a current resident deer hunting
3
license may hunt deer of either sex during any season open to hunting of deer with
4
firearms that is established by the department. For purposes of this paragraph, a
5
disabled veteran is a resident who produces evidence that shows that he or she is a
6
veteran, as defined in
38 USC 101
, and is receiving disability compensation benefits
7
under
38 USC 1101
to
1163
for disabilities that result in a disability rating that is
8
50 percent or greater under
38 USC 1114
or
1134
, or is receiving disability
9
compensation benefits due to being individually unemployable under
38 CFR 4.16
10
as authorized under
38 USC 501
.
SB505,2,11
11
(end)
Down
Down
/2025/related/proposals/sb505
true
proposaltext
/2025/related/proposals/sb505
proposaltext/2025/REG/SB505
proposaltext/2025/REG/SB505
section
true
Menu
»
2025
»
Related Documents
»
Proposal Text
»
SB505: Bill Text
×
Details for
PDF view
Link
(Permanent link)
Bookmark this location
View toggle
Go to top of document
Search in this chapter
Search in this section
Search in this agency
Search in this chapter group
Search in this chapter
Search in this section
Cross references for section
Acts affecting this section
References to this
1970 Statutes Annotations
Appellate Court Citations
Administrative Code Index
Reference lines
Clear highlighting