HB2673 Summary

• Authorizes the livestock loss board to compensate landowners, lessees, and livestock operators for implementing avoidance measures to prevent wolf depredation on livestock.

• Defines "avoidance measures" as nonlethal actions taken or education provided by livestock owners to reduce the likelihood of livestock depredation.

• Establishes that the livestock compensation fund may be used to compensate participants in a pay-for-presence program and those implementing avoidance measures, in addition to direct wolf depredation compensation.

• Amends sections 17-492 and 17-493 of Arizona Revised Statutes to incorporate avoidance measures and related compensation into the existing livestock loss board framework.