MISSOURI Agency Rule Agency Rule HEALTH REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION

  • 2 CSR 30-2.005 Vesicular Stomatitis Restrictions on Domestic and Exotic Ungulates (Hoofed Animals) Entering Missouri - ungulates from country with vesicular stomatitis must have Certificate of Veterinary Inspection


Published: Jun 15, 2023

Comments due: July 15, 2023

UPDATED 12/28

FLORIDA (FWC) rule 68A-9.006 Wildlife rehabilitation

Makes various changes


Public Hearing: Jan 3, 2023

Meeting: Feb 2023

Proposed Rule Filed: Dec 21, 2023

temporary results

CALIFORNIA Wildlife Resources Rehabilitation rule


Rehabilitation rule change


Status: Received at May 2022 meeting, Meeting Sep 15, 2022


Committee Meeting:May 17, 2023

Committee Meeting: Sep 19, 2023

Commission Update Meeting: Oct 10-11, 2023

Committee Meeting: Jan 16, 2024


Proposed changes including:

  • Temporary confinement
  • BAN picking up wildlife in oil/toxic spill
  • Define wildlife rehab facility and approval process
  • Operating facility procedures
  • Update care standards

CALIFORNIA Wildlife Resources AZA/ZAA rule


Received at May 2022 meeting


Committee Meeting: NO LONGER ON COMMITTEE SCHEDULE

KENTUCKY Rule 301 KAR 1:115 Propagation of aquatic organisms


  • Deletes definitions
  • Replaces “person” with “individual, corporation, or other business entity”
  • Requires Department to deny permit for propagating aquatic organisms potentially damaging to the native ecosystem to address new statute
  • Allows request for hearing within 30 days of the denial or revocation – must follow KRS Chapter 13B – Commissioner considers final order


Adopted by Agency

Amended by ARRS: Nov 9, 2023

Sent to LRC: Nov 9, 2023

Needs Sent to Legislative Committee

CALIFORNIA Wildlife Resources Restricted SPecies Rule Review

Reviewing restricted Species Rules


Status: Meeting Sep 15, 2022 - Removed from agenda


Committee Meeting: Not scheduled for 2023 or Jan 2024

KANSAS Agency Rule 115-7-10 Fishing, special provisions


 ADDS ANS water, updates Asian carp species 


Workshop: Jan 12, 2023

Workshop:Mar 9, 2023

Workshop: Apr 27, 2023

Workshop: Jun 22, 2023

Workshop: Aug 17, 2023

Workshop: Sep 7, 2023

Workshop: Nov 30, 2023

MINNESOTA RULE 6216.0250 prohibited invasive species

Adds new fish, mollusks and crustaceans to the prohibited invasive species list

Comments due: Dec 9, 2022



New prohibited species:

  • US injurious fish, mollusks, crustaceans
  • Eastern mosquitofish
  • tench
  • tubenose goby (Proterorhinus)
  • golden clam
  • golden mussel
  • jumping worms
  • marbled crayfish

CALIFORNIA Wildlife Resources falconry Rule Review

Reviewing falconry rules


Status: Received by committee at May 2022 meeting


Committee Meeting: Not scheduled for 2023 or Jan 2024 meetings

ARIZONA RULE REVIEW Ch. 4 Live Wildlife


  • Unknown


Public Hearing and Comments due: Dec 1, 2023

Meeting: Dec 8

GRRC Study: Jan 23, 2024

GRRC Meeting: Feb 6, 2024

NORTH CAROLINA GAME BIRD PROPAGATION RULES


  • 15A NCAC 10H .0901 GAME BIRD PROPAGATION LICENSE
    • Removes purchase, possess, transport, transfer, transport, and release from activities involving game birds that require a license
    • Replaces “propagated upland game birds and migratory game birds” and “propagated game birds and game bird eggs” with “domestically raised waterfowl and game birds and eggs”
    • Updates name of Department of Agriculture
    • Moves release for dog training limit to new dog training section
    • Updates Department website
    • Removes information required for application
    • Removes the license must be visible at all times
  • 15A NCAC 10H .0904 DISPOSITION OF GAME BIRDS AND GAME BIRD EGGS
    • Replaces “propagated game birds and game bird eggs” with “domestically raised waterfowl and game birds and eggs”
    • Removes subsection titles
    • Replaces licensed controlled shooting preserve with licensed controlled hunting preserve
    • Removes requirement for all other domestically raised game birds to have a leg band
  • 15A NCAC 10H .0905 TRANSPORTATION
    • Replaces “propagated game birds and game bird eggs” with “domestically raised waterfowl and game birds and eggs”
    • Replaces licensed controlled shooting preserve with licensed controlled hunting preserve
  • 15A NCAC 10H .0906 RECORDS
    • Replaces “propagated game birds and game bird eggs” with “domestically raised waterfowl and game birds and eggs”


Public Hearing: Jan 9 @ 7 pm
                           Southwest Randolph High School (Auditorium), 1641 Hopewell Friends Rd,

                           Asheboro, NC 27205
 
                          
Jan 11 @ 7 pm
                           Haywood Community College (Auditorium), 185 Freedlander Drive

                           Clyde, NC 28721

                         
Jan 17 @ 7 pm
                          Craven County Courthouse, 302 Broad Street, New Bern, NC 28560

                          Jan 18 @ 7 pm via Zoom

Comments due: Jan 30, 2024
                            Rulemaking Coordinator
                            1701 Mail Service Center
                            Raleigh, NC 27699

                            Email: regulations@ncwildlife.org


KENTUCKY Rule 301 KAR 1:125 Transportation of Fish


  • Deletes definitions
  • Exempts permitted commercial fish propagator from needing Fish Transportation Permit
  • Adds that permit must be renewed annually
  • Requires Department to deny a permit for aquatic organisms potentially damaging to native ecosystems to address new statute


Adopted by Agency

Amended by ARRS: Nov 9, 2023

Sent to LRC: Nov 9, 2023

Needs Sent to Legislative Committee

OREGON IMPORT RULES


  • 603-011-0255 Importat[ion of Animals Into Oregon;] Requirements - General Provisions
  • 603-011-0265 Import[ation of Cattle: Tuberculosis Testing Requirements] Requirements - Tuberculosis
  • 603-011-0270 Import[ation of Cattle: Brucellosis Testing and Vaccination Requirements]  Requirements - Brucellosis
  • 603-011-0381 Import[ation of Dogs and Cat] Requirements - Rabies
  • 603-011-0382 Import[ation]Requirements – Captive Wildlife and Cervids
  • 603-011-0370 Import[ation] Requirements – Nonhuman Primates


Public Hearing: Dec 12, 2023

Comments Due: Dec 15, 2023

UPDATED 1/15

IDAHO Agency Rule 13.01.06 Zero-based regulation rulemaking: Rules Governing Classification and Protection of Wildlife


UNKNOWN


Public Hearing: Apr 17, 2023

Pre-introduction comments due: Apr 26, 2023

Rule Adoption Meeting: Jul 2023

DELAWARE RULES 7 DAC 3900 Wildlife


Amending various sections including:

  • 1.0 Definitions
  • 2.0 Method of Take - annual report of snapping turtles trapped
  • 4.0 Seasons - adds green frogs to bullfrog season/limit and limits to 24/day for both combined and closes diamondback terrapin season
  • 5.0 Live Turkeys - bans live turkeys without being confined at all times
  • 14.0 Falconry - extends hunting seasons with raptors AND excludes migratory game birds from resident game
  • 15.0 Possession, Collection or Sale of Native Wildlife - revises commercial collection law to ban native wildlife species except permit under existing law - BANS rabies vector species - allows collecting 1 amphibian egg mass or 10 larval without permit as long as only 1 adult is kept - updates legal reptiles and amphibians 
  • 16.0 Endangered Species - updates species list
  • 19.0 Permits - bans violating any conditions of a permit
  • 20.0 Game Bird Releases - Requires a permit to release any domestically raised quail, chukar partridge, Hungarian partridge, or pheasant (was possession or release of 25 or fewer) - creates permit fee for releasing more than 25    


Start Action Noticed: Oct 2023

Public Hearing: Dec 16, 2023

Comments Due: Jan 12, 2024


FLORIDA (FWC) rule 68A-24.005 Transporting and Shipping Live Raccoons

Revises transport of live wild-trapped raccoons by wildlife rehabilitation permits


Rule Development: Dec 14, 2023


State Agency Meetings

IDAHO Rule 02.06.09 Rules Governing Invasive Species and Noxious Weeds


Adds various insects and mollusks to the invasive species list - Asian longhorned beetle, emerald ash borer, spongy moth, applesnail, brown garden snail, Chinese mysterysnail, decollate snail, faucet snail, giant African snail, green or burrowing snail, Japanese mysterysnail, lactea snail, marisa, maritime garden snail, pulmonate snail, quilted melania, red-lipped melania, white garden snail, wrinkled snail


Meeting: Jan 12, 2023

Meeting: Jun 1, 2023

Comments Due: Jun 30, 2023

NeVADA WILDLIFE rule R053-23


Initial Draft: Sep 6, 2023

Proposed Rule Filed: Oct 12, 2023


  • 503.0935 Special permit for handling, moving or temporarily possessing protected wildlife. - Removes drivers license requirement
  • 503.094 Scientific permit for collection or possession of wildlife. - Removes drivers license requirement
  • 503.095 Permit to collect unprotected wildlife for commercial purposes.- Removes drivers license requirement
  • 503.110 Restrictions on importation, transportation and possession of certain species. - Removes permit issuance for entertainment or commercial photography  AMENDED
  • 503.200 Definitions - revises definition of hybrid raptor
  • 503.212 Banding of raptors. - Removes that bands are provided by the Department 
  • 503.214 Duties of owner of raptor if leg band must be removed or is lost. - Must report rebanding to USFWS instead of the Department 
  • 503.225 Transfer, sale, trade, barter, purchase or acquisition by trade or barter of raptors. - Removes that person authorized to possess raptors other than falconers may transfer or receive by transfer a raptor from the wild AMENDED
  • 503.230 Release of raptors. AMENDED
  • 503.235 - Must include offspring of raptors on application
  • 503.350 Taking of raptors for falconry: Authorization for another person to take raptors for holder of permit. - Adds that anyone who has someone else take a raptor for them must file the form within 5 days – removes the parts about being on site or not on site due to disabilityAMENDED
  • 503.375 Housing of raptors: General requirements. - Removes requirement to provide healthy environment for housed raptor
  • 503.405 Care of raptor by falconry licensee who is not owner of raptor. Removes that person authorized to provide care may practice falconry
  • 503.445 Use of raptors in conservation education programs. - Removes that falconer must not be present at education program that does not include falconry and conservation education
  • 503.455 Use of raptors to conduct abatement activities. - Combines information about Federal Migratory Bird Abatement permit AMENDED
  • 504.486 Exhibit of wildlife under authority of federal exhibitor’s license. - Repeals section that USDA exhibitors may exhibit wildlife for 90 days without license or permit


FLORIDA (FWC) rule 68-5.003 Introduction of Non-Native Species into the State.


Introduced at May 12, 2023 FWC Meeting - FWC to continue work on it


TAG Option 1:

  • Bans importing any nonnative species not documented by the Commission or USDA to be in commerce in FL on 2/21/23 unless a Risk Determination Process is completed and it is determined to not be unacceptable
  • Requires commission to use best available information to determine those in commerce – allows stakeholders to submit receipts, bill of ladings or other government documents to prove a species was in commerce
  • Allows Commission to use risk determination process for any species
  • Requires process to include species evaluation form – requests must also include name/address/ affiliation of submitter, bioprofile and literature review
  • Requires yearly workplan of species to be evaluated
  • Allows species to be imported if initial evaluation reveals it is unlikely to be established or pose threat; if undetermined or determined to pose a risk, a full risk determination analysis will be conducted that requires opportunity for public input, appointment of review group, report and peer review by at least 3 scientists
  • If peer-reviewed analysis reveals the risk is unknown or likely to pose a risk, the commission will bring a proposed rule to limit possession of that species; if no risk; commerce is allowed as soon as posted on website
  • Allows commission to bring a proposed rule to limit species in commerce if there is a verified breeding population in the wild, verified invasion in surrounding states or governmental requests for regulation, species is unknown disease carrier, species may impact public safety, or documented adverse impacts to native fish and wildlife or ecosystems 


Option 2:

  • Bans transport or bring alive into the state any freshwater fish, aquatic invertebrate, marine animal or wild animal not native without a risk determination process
  • Declares Class I and II wildlife and conditional and prohibited nonnative species to be previously evaluated but allows future evaluation
  • Allows Risk Determination Process to be used on any species
  • Requires process to include species evaluation form – requests must also include name/address/ affiliation of submitter, bioprofile and literature review
  • Requires yearly workplan of species to be evaluated
  • Allows species to be imported if initial evaluation reveals it is unlikely to be established or pose threat; if undetermined or determined to pose a risk, a full risk determination analysis will be conducted that requires opportunity for public input, appointment of review group, report and peer review by at least 3 scientists
  • If peer-reviewed analysis reveals the risk is unknown or likely to pose a risk, the commission will bring a proposed rule to limit possession of that species; if no risk; commerce is allowed as soon as posted on website
  • Allows commission to bring a proposed rule to limit species in commerce if there is a verified breeding population in the wild, verified invasion in surrounding states or governmental requests for regulation, species is unknown disease carrier, species may impact public safety, or documented adverse impacts to native fish and wildlife or ecosystems