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25LSO-0557
2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-0557
Introduced
2.0
HOUSE BILL NO. HB0151
Predator management district appointments and terms.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Lien
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to predator management districts; amending predator management advisory board director term periods; requiring sportsman and hunter directors to have held a valid fishing or hunting license within the previous twenty-four months; removing staggered term limits for sportsmen and hunter directors; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1
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W.S. 11
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202(a)(i), (ii), (iv) and (v) is amended to read:
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202.
Administration of districts by district boards; number and qualifications of members; term; filling of vacancies; removal.
(a)
The affairs of each district shall be administered by a board of directors, each of whom shall be a bona fide resident of Wyoming. Directors for the positions identified in paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this subsection shall be elected at an annual meeting of district livestock owners. Directors for the positions identified in paragraphs (iv) and (v) of this subsection shall be appointed as described.
The composition of the board shall be as follows:
(i)
Three (3) directors shall be sheep owners having paid predator management fees on sheep in the district in the year preceding election. At each subsequent annual district meeting one (1) director shall be elected for a three (3) year term
, and no director shall serve more than nine (9) years
.
Subject to the provisions of W.S. 11
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203(a), all sheep owners whether an individual, corporation or partnership, having paid predator management fees on sheep in the district regardless of the domicile of the sheep, are entitled to one (1) vote at the meeting;
(ii)
Three (3) directors shall be cattle owners having paid predator management fees on cattle in the district in the year preceding election. At each subsequent annual district meeting one (1) director shall be elected for a three (3) year term
, and no director shall serve more than nine (9) years
. Subject to the provisions of W.S. 11
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203(a), all cattle owners whether an individual, corporation or partnership, having paid predator management fees on cattle in the district regardless of the domicile of the cattle, are entitled to one (1) vote at the meeting;
(iv)
The board of county commissioners shall appoint
one (1) director
two (2) directors
to serve for an initial term of two (2) years and thereafter for three (3) year terms from electors in the county not engaged in raising sheep or cattle. No
appointed member may
director shall
serve for a
consecutive
period of more than
six (6)
nine (9)
years;
(v)
If the board of directors determines state funds are necessary for an effective predator management program to assure the statutory requirements provided in W.S. 11
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205 are fulfilled and state funds are appropriated and received for that purpose, then three (3) directors representing sportsmen and hunters from the district shall be appointed to the board of directors by the county commissioners serving the local district.
Sportsmen and hunter representatives shall be bona fide residents of the district not engaged in raising sheep or cattle and shall hold or have held a valid Wyoming fishing or hunting license within the preceding
twelve (12)
twenty
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four (24)
month period.
County commissioners, to the greatest extent practical, shall select sportsmen and hunter representatives to ensure representation from as broad a geographic distribution of the district as possible.
The
county commissioners shall determine who of the
three (3) sportsmen and hunter directors appointed to a board under this paragraph shall serve
an
initial
term
terms
of
one (1) year, who shall serve an initial term of
(2) years and
who
thereafter
shall serve
a term
for terms
of three (3) years.
Thereafter, each term shall be for three (3)
No sportsman and hunter director shall serve for a period of more than nine (9)
years.
Section 2
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This act is effective January 1, 2026
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