2137 House side

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69th Legislative Assembly (2025-27)​

SB 2137​

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DATE	TIME	HEARING TYPE	COMMITTEE	ROOM	DESCRIPTION
01/17	10:20 AM	Bill Hearing	Senate Agriculture and Veterans Affairs	Fort Union	The use of supplemental feed for hunting. THE MEETING LOCATION FOR THIS BILL HEARING WILL BE IN THE JWING OF THE CAPITOL... ROOM 216.
		Bill Hearing	Senate Agriculture and Veterans Affairs	216	Relating to the use of supplemental feed for hunting.
01/17	1:30 PM	Bill Hearing	Senate Agriculture and Veterans Affairs	216	CONTINUATION FROM THE MORNING HEARING - Relating to the use of supplemental feed for hunting
01/23	2:38 PM	Committee Work	Senate Agriculture and Veterans Affairs	Fort Union	Committee Work: Relating to the use of supplemental feed for hunting.
03/07	8:30 AM	Bill Hearing	House Energy and Natural Resources	Coteau AB	Relating to the use of supplemental feed for hunting; and to provide an expiration date.	Submit Testimony

2137 passed the Senate and after crossover moves to the House side. It was amended to include a four-year sunset clause to see how things are progressing. It has to pass the House in identical form, no more amendments. I wouldn't see a problem if the Bill had stayed in the House Ag committee. Chairman of the House Natural Resources, Rep. Todd Porter wants it in his committee.

Written testimony is beginning to come in.

https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-202...y/bt2137.html?bill_year=2025&bill_number=2137

In January written testimony largely favored 2137. That is needed again. Click on the blue Submit Testimony and follow the prompts.

 

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Guys in the northeast part of the state and eastern side better start contacting your house members and submitting testimony…… like predicted they are trying to slowly close the entire state a few units at a time. These will be the new units restricted if the game and fish follows their own “science” which up to this point we know they have not.

 

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https://ndlegis.gov/assembly/69-202...s/bh2137.html?bill_year=2025&bill_number=2137

Forgot to mention submit written testimony part is in Hearings.

 

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The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies is a 501(C)6 non-profit. The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies is a 501(C)4 non-profit.


ND is within the Western. The WAFWA is a large area including Alaska, six Canadian Provinces and the western half of the U.S. The WAFWA has committees and working groups. What we debate about Chronic Wasting Disease is here:


Wildlife Health Committee – WAFWA


Scroll down to full roster or:


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ND Game and Fish Director Jeb Williams is leadership sponsor and ND DVM Charlie Bahnson are on the panel of 28.


The WAFWA Wildlife Health Committee helped write the Best Management Practices 111 pages and BMP's 1st Supplement 22 pages. Short on science, long on supporting data. They are a wish list of changes AFWA would like to enact. (Especially no feeding of wildlife. CWD or prion theory provides the "crisis") They are recommendations, not law. People are yielding to the BMP's because they believe it came from somewhere higher. The Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies is not an agency, it is a non-profit NGO.


Elon Musk just did a podcast with Joe Rogan. He said,

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v...fits_into_billions_in_government_funding.html


"The whole 'NGO' thing is a nightmare," Musk said. "And it's a misnomer because if you have a government-funded non-governmental organization, you're simply a government-funded organization. It's an oxymoron." He added: "It does some good. So it’s not like 0% good. If it was really 0% good, it would be much easier to attack. So there’s going to be some percentage of good that they add in there. But it might be 5% or 10% good, while 90–95% is not."