SB-0211, As Passed Senate, June 30, 2005

HOUSE SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 211

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

by amending section 41301 (MCL 324.41301), as added by 2003 PA 270.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 41301. (1) As used in this part:

(a) "Council" means the invasive species advisory council

created in section 41321.

(b) "Department" means the department of natural resources.

(c)  (a)  "Genetically engineered" refers to  a fish  an

organism whose genome, chromosomal or extrachromosomal, is modified

permanently and heritably, using recombinant nucleic acid

techniques, or the progeny thereof.

     (d) "Introduce", with reference to an organism, means to

knowingly and willfully stock, place, plant, release, or allow the

release of the organism in this state at any specific location

where the organism is not already naturalized.

(e) "Prohibited aquatic plant species" means any of the

following or fragments or seeds thereof:

     (i) African oxygen weed (Lagarosiphon major) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (ii) Brazilian elodea (Egeria densa) or a hybrid or genetically

engineered variant thereof.

     (iii) European frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (iv) Giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (v) Giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta, auriculata, biloba, or

herzogii) or a hybrid or genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (vi) Hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (vii) Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (viii) Parrot's feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (ix) Water chestnut (Trapa natans) or a hybrid or genetically

engineered variant thereof.

     (x) Yellow flag iris (Iris pseudacorus) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (xi) Yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltata) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

(f)  (b)  "Prohibited fish species" means any of the following

or the eggs thereof:

     (i) Bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (ii) Bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus) or a hybrid or genetically

engineered variant thereof.

     (iii) Black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (iv) Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (v) Ide (Leuciscus idus) or a hybrid or genetically engineered

variant thereof.

     (vi) Japanese weatherfish (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus) or a

hybrid or genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (vii) Rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalamus) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (viii) Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (ix) A fish of the snakehead family (family Channidae) or a

genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (x) Tench (Tinca tinca) or a hybrid or genetically engineered

variant thereof.

     (g) "Prohibited insect species" means any of the following or

the eggs thereof:

     (i) Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) or a

hybrid or genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (ii) Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

(h) "Prohibited species" means any of the following:

     (i) A prohibited aquatic plant species.

     (ii) A prohibited fish species.

     (iii) A prohibited insect species.

(i)  (c)  "Recombinant nucleic acid techniques" means

laboratory techniques through which genetic material is isolated

and manipulated in vitro and then inserted into an organism.

     (j) "Restricted aquatic plant species" means any of the

following or fragments or seeds thereof:

     (i) Curly leaf pondweed (Potamogeton crispus) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (ii) Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) or a hybrid

or genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (iii) Flowering rush (Butomus umbellatus) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (iv) Phragmites or common reed (Phragmites australis) or a

hybrid or genetically engineered variant thereof.

     (v) Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) or a hybrid or

genetically engineered variant thereof, except for cultivars

developed and recognized to be sterile and approved by the director

of agriculture under section 16a of the insect pest and plant

disease act, 1931 PA 189, MCL 286.216a.

     (k) "Restricted species" means a restricted aquatic plant

species.

     (2) For the purposes of this part:

     (a) A person is not considered to possess a live organism

simply because the organism is present on land or in waters owned

by that person unless the person has knowingly introduced that live

organism on that land or in those waters.

     (b) A person is not considered to possess a live organism if

the organism was obtained from the environment and the person only

possesses the organism at the specific location at which it was

obtained from the environment.

     (c) A person is not considered to possess a live organism if

the possession is for the purpose of promptly destroying the

organism.

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

unless all of the following bills of the 93rd Legislature are

enacted into law:

     (a) Senate Bill No. 212.

     (b) Senate Bill No. 213.

     (c) Senate Bill No. 215.

     (d) House Bill No. 4714.

     (e) House Bill No. 4715.

     (f) House Bill No. 4716.