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Fishing Regulations

By Elizabeth Lincoln

Governor Mark Dayton asked the Legislature to make the 2014 session an "Unsession."  The Governor proposed "more than 1,000 reforms that will improve state government services, eliminate unnecessary and outdated laws, and simplify the language of our state statutes." 

Dayton proposed a number of broad Unsession initiatives on taxes, permitting, rulemaking, and unnecessary laws.  The Governor's plain language initiative specifically identifies the annual fishing regulations as being too complex and need to be made more concise.  Legislative staff Colbey Sullivan (House Research), David Schmidtke (Legislative Reference Library), and Brad Hagemeier (House Fiscal Analysis Department) went ice fishing recently to test the complexity of the 2014 Fishing Regulations.  They plan on testing the 2015 Fishing Regulations next year too.