SENATE BILL No. 211

 

 

February 17, 2005, Introduced by Senators BIRKHOLZ, TOY, ALLEN, GILBERT, SANBORN, PATTERSON, VAN WOERKOM, HARDIMAN and HAMMERSTROM and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs.

 

 

 

     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. As used in this part:

 

     (a) "Council" means the nonnative 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

 


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

 

genetically engineered variant thereof.

 

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

 

or genetically engineered variant thereof.

 

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

 

genetically engineered variant thereof.

 

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

 

genetically engineered variant thereof.

 

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

 

herzogii) or a hybrid or genetically engineered variant thereof.

 

     (viii) Hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata) or a hybrid or

 

genetically engineered variant thereof.

 

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

 

genetically engineered variant thereof.

 

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

 

genetically engineered variant thereof.

 

     (xi) 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.

 

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

 

engineered variant thereof.

 

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

 

genetically engineered variant thereof.

 

     (xiv) 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.

 

     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) Senate Bill No. 216.                                   

 


           

 

     (e) Senate Bill No. 217.                                   

 

            

 

     (f) Senate Bill No. 214.