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MI SB0276

Bill

Status

Engrossed

10/21/2025

Primary Sponsor

John Cherry

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Origin

Senate

103rd Legislature

AI Summary

  • Increases fees for hunting and fishing licenses, including resident base licenses from $10 to $15, nonresident base licenses from $150 to $200, deer licenses from $20 to $25, and all-species fishing licenses from $25 to $30 for residents and $75 to $90 for nonresidents

  • Creates new "complete license" bundles at $150 for residents and $450 for nonresidents that include base license, two deer licenses, one antlerless deer license, all-species fishing license, turkey license, waterfowl license, pheasant license, and fur harvester's license

  • Establishes a cold-water subaccount funded by fishing license fees ($5 per resident, $15 per nonresident) for habitat improvement, fish production, and dam removal benefiting cold-water species

  • Provides 60% discount on licenses for seniors (65+) and children (16 and under), and creates an 80% wildlife management discount on antlerless deer licenses to encourage population management

  • Renames the "sportsmen against hunger" program to "hunters feeding Michigan" and creates a shooting and education fund for state-owned shooting range operations

  • Eliminates the deer and elk baiting ban effective April 1, 2026, invalidating any commission order banning baiting that was in effect on October 1, 2025

Legislative Description

Natural resources: fishing; structuring of fishing licenses and hunting licenses; revise. Amends secs. 43520, 43522, 43523a, 43523b, 43524, 43525b, 43525c, 43527a, 43528, 43528a, 43528b, 43529, 43531, 43532, 43532a, 43533, 43535, 43540a, 43540c, 43546 & 43553 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.43520 et seq.) & adds sec. 503d. TIE BAR WITH: SB 0277'25

State agencies (existing): natural resources

Last Action

Referred To Committee On Natural Resources And Tourism

10/21/2025

Committee Referrals

Natural Resources And Tourism10/21/2025
Appropriations5/1/2025

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