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WI AB693

Bill

Status

Introduced

11/26/2025

Primary Sponsor

Joel Kitchens

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Creates an exemption to Wisconsin's prohibition on selling, purchasing, bartering, or trading wild animals for deer donated to food pantries
  • Applies only to deer lawfully taken in the central farmland zone or southern farmland zone as defined in state administrative code
  • Allows hunters to receive gift cards or gift certificates to local businesses in exchange for donating deer
  • Requires the meat processing facility to agree to process the deer and provide the processed meat to a food distribution service serving low-income individuals
  • Referred to the Assembly Committee on Sporting Heritage after introduction on November 26, 2025

Legislative Description

The offering of deer to a meat processing facility for provision to a food pantry.

Last Action

Representative Sheehan added as a coauthor

2/20/2026

Committee Referrals

Sporting Heritage11/26/2025

Full Bill Text

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