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HB0035 • 2020

Wolf depredation compensation.

AN ACT relating to agriculture; recreating a gray wolf depredation compensation program; imposing additional duties on the department of agriculture; authorizing rulemaking; providing for termination of the program as specified; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

Agriculture
Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Representative Winter
Last action
2020-02-11
Official status
inactive
Effective date
3/1/2020

Plain English Breakdown

The bill did not pass in the Wyoming legislature as it failed introduction on February 11, 2020.

Wolf Damage Compensation Program

This bill creates a program to compensate farmers or ranchers who lose livestock due to gray wolf attacks in specific areas of Wyoming from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2022.

What This Bill Does

  • Creates a compensation program for people whose livestock is harmed by gray wolves in certain areas of Wyoming.
  • Gives the Department of Agriculture the job of running this program and making rules about it.
  • Provides $90,000 from the state's general fund to pay for the program over two years.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Farmers or ranchers who lose livestock due to gray wolves in specific areas of Wyoming.
  • The Department of Agriculture which will manage and regulate this compensation program.

Terms To Know

Livestock
Animals raised on farms for food, wool, or other products such as cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, and chickens.
Predatory animal
An animal that is dangerous to livestock and can be legally hunted or trapped under certain conditions.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill did not pass in the Wyoming legislature.
  • It only applies for a two-year period from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2022.
  • Details about how much compensation will be given are not specified.

Bill History

  1. 2020-02-11 House

    H Failed Introduction 39-20-1-0-0

  2. 2020-02-07 House

    H Received for Introduction

  3. 2020-01-07 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
20LSO-0326
2020
STATE OF WYOMING
20LSO-0326
Numbered
2.0

HOUSE BILL NO. HB0035

Wolf depredation compensation.

Sponsored by: Representative(s) Winter and Sommers and Senator(s) Agar and Bebout

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to agriculture; recreating a gray wolf depredation compensation program; imposing additional duties on the department of agriculture; authorizing rulemaking; providing for termination of the program as specified; providing an appropriation; and providing for effective dates.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

(a)

Notwithstanding any other provision of law

and for the period beginning with the effective date of this section
and ending June 30, 2022, the department of agriculture shall administer a program to compensate landowners, lessees or their agents whose livestock, as defined in W.S. 23
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102(a)(xvi), is damaged by a gray wolf in an area of the state where gray wolves are classified as a predatory animal.

(b)

The department may enter into contracts for personnel to assist in administering and investigating claims for damages.

(c)

The department shall promulgate necessary rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this act.

Section 2.

The department of agriculture shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement this act on or before July 1, 2020.

Section 3.

There is appropriated ninety thousand dollars ($90,000.00) from the general fund to the department of agriculture for purposes of administering the program and funding damage payments pursuant to this act. This appropriation shall be for the period beginning July 1, 2020
and ending June 30, 2022. This appropriation shall not be transferred or expended for any other purpose and any unexpended, unobligated funds remaining from this appropriation shall revert as provided by law on June 30, 2022. It is the intent of the legislature that this appropriation not be included in the department of agriculture's standard budget for the immediately succeeding fiscal biennium.

Section 4.

(a)

Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(b)

Sections 1 and 3 of this act are effective July 1, 2020.

(END)

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