Bill Summary

• Authorizes taking of wolves through hunting and trapping after federal delisting, with licenses required at $26 for residents and $230 for nonresidents, and establishes commissioner authority to set seasons, areas, quotas, and daily limits by rule.

• Establishes wolf management and monitoring account funded by wolf license revenue, restricted to wolf management, research, damage control, enforcement, and education.

• Modifies deer baiting prohibition to allow noncommercial harvest of specific fish species (bullheads, goldeyes, mooneyes, sheepshead, suckers) from infested stream waters for bait when used on same water body.

• Allows landowners with 80+ acres of agricultural land to receive free antlerless deer licenses without lottery application and permits them to purchase additional deer licenses while respecting bag limits.

• Makes various technical updates to hunting regulations including firearm requirements for wolves, archery minimum draw weights for wolves, portable stand tagging requirements, and blaze orange exceptions for archery deer hunters.