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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR:	Lyons		DATE TYPED:	3/3/99		HB
SHORT TITLE:		Big Game Partnership Act				SB	89/aSFl#1
					ANALYST:		Esquibel

APPROPRIATION

Appropriation Contained		Estimated Additional Impact		Recurring or Non-Rec	Fund Affected
FY99	FY2000	FY99	FY2000	Recurring or Non-Rec	Fund Affected
			$ 275.0	Recurring	Game Prot Fd

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Relates to SB118, SB87

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

Department of Game and Fish (DGF)

Attorney General's Office (AG)

SUMMARY

Senate Floor Amendments

The Senate floor amendments to SB89 provide for the following:

•promote big game "management" as opposed to propagation;
•"manage" big game as opposed to maximizing big game;
•"control and manage" big game while deleting the word "conserve"; and
•increase the opportunities for DGF to engage in cooperative agreements with "political subdivisions of the state".

Synopsis of Bill

The bill proposes to create the "big game partnership program" to manage and promote big game propagation on public and private lands. The four-year program would have DGF cooperate with other public agencies and private land owners to control, conserve and manage big game and big game habitat, with the State Game Commission approving all partnership agreements.

The DGF would issue special big game partnership licenses, with the proceeds deposited in the newly created "big game partnership fund".

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The DGF indicates that it would require five FTEs to administer the new "big game partnership program". The cost of five FTEs would be approximately $275.0 annually funded from the game protection fund until revenue is generated for the big game partnership fund.

The bill proposes that the DGF's would not fund more than half of any partnership under the program.

TECHNICAL ISSUES

The AG indicates that the program will need to ensure that public funds and services are not given to private land owners in a manner that violates the anti-donation clause of the state Constitution.

RAE/njw