HOUSE BILL No. 4038

 

January 22, 2013, Introduced by Rep. Jenkins and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

 

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

 

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

 

by amending section 41301 (MCL 324.41301), as amended by 2009 PA

 

51.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

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

 

     (a) "Genetically engineered" refers to an organism whose

 

genome, chromosomal or extrachromosomal, is modified permanently

 

and heritably, using recombinant nucleic acid techniques, or the

 

progeny of such an organism.

 

     (b) "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.

 


     (c) "Prohibited species", subject to section 41302, means any

 

of the following:

 

     (i) Any of the following prohibited aquatic plant species,

 

including a hybrid or genetically engineered variant of the species

 

or a fragment, including a seed or other propagule, of the species

 

or of a hybrid or genetically engineered variant:

 

     (A) African oxygen weed (Lagarosiphon major).

 

     (B) Brazilian elodea (Egeria densa).

 

     (C) Cylindro (Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii).

 

     (D) European frogbit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae).

 

     (E) Fanwort (Cabomba caroliniana).

 

     (F) Giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum).

 

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

 

herzogii).

 

     (H) Hydrilla (Hydrilla verticillata).

 

     (I) Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica).

 

     (J) Parrot's feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum).

 

     (K) Starry stonewort (Nitellopsis obtusa).

 

     (L) Water chestnut (Trapa natans).

 

     (M) Yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltata).

 

     (ii) The following prohibited bird species, including a hybrid

 

or genetically engineered variant of the species or an egg of the

 

species or of a hybrid or genetically engineered variant: Eurasian

 

collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto).

 

     (iii) The following prohibited crustacean species, including a

 

hybrid or genetically engineered variant of the species or an egg

 

of the species or of a hybrid or genetically engineered variant:

 


rusty crayfish (Orconectes rusticus).

 

     (iv) Any of the following prohibited fish species, including a

 

hybrid or genetically engineered variant of the species or an egg

 

of the species or of a hybrid or genetically engineered variant:

 

     (A) Bighead carp (Hypophthalmichthys nobilis).

 

     (B) Bitterling (Rhodeus sericeus).

 

     (C) Black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus).

 

     (D) Eurasian ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernuus).

 

     (E) Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus).

 

     (F) Ide (Leuciscus idus).

 

     (G) Japanese weatherfish (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus).

 

     (H) Round goby (Neogobius melanostomus).

 

     (I) Rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalamus).

 

     (J) Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix).

 

     (K) A fish of the snakehead family (family Channidae).

 

     (L) Tench (Tinca tinca).

 

     (M) Tubenose goby (Proterorhinus marmoratus).

 

     (v) Any of the following prohibited insect species, including

 

a hybrid or genetically engineered variant of the species or an egg

 

of the species or of a hybrid or genetically engineered variant:

 

     (A) Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis).

 

     (B) Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis).

 

     (vi) The following prohibited mammal species, including a

 

hybrid or genetically engineered variant: nutria (Myocastor

 

coypus).

 

     (vii) Any of the following prohibited mollusk species,

 

including a hybrid or genetically engineered variant of the species

 


or an egg of the species or of a hybrid or genetically engineered

 

variant:

 

     (A) Brown garden snail (Helix aspersa).

 

     (B) Carthusian snail (Monacha cartusiana).

 

     (C) Giant African snail (Achatina fulica).

 

     (D) Girdled snail (Hygromia cinctella).

 

     (E) Heath snail (Xerolenta obvia).

 

     (F) Wrinkled dune snail (Candidula intersecta).

 

     (d) "Recombinant nucleic acid techniques" means laboratory

 

techniques through which genetic material is isolated and

 

manipulated in vitro and then inserted into an organism.

 

     (e) "Restricted species", subject to section 41302, means any

 

of the following:

 

     (i) Any of the following restricted aquatic plant species,

 

including a hybrid or genetically engineered variant of the species

 

or a fragment, including a seed or other propagule, of the species

 

or of a hybrid or genetically engineered variant:

 

     (A) Curly leaf pondweed (Potamogeton crispus).

 

     (B) Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum).

 

     (C) Flowering rush (Butomus umbellatus).

 

     (D) Phragmites or common reed (Phragmites australis).

 

     (E) Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), except that

 

cultivars of purple loosestrife developed and recognized to be

 

sterile and approved by the director of the department of

 

agriculture and rural development under section 16a of the insect

 

pest and plant disease act, 1931 PA 189, MCL 286.216a, are not a

 

restricted species.

 


     (ii) The following restricted terrestrial plant species,

 

including a hybrid or genetically engineered variant of the species

 

or a fragment, including a seed or other propagule, of the species

 

or of a hybrid or genetically engineered variant: autumn olive

 

(Elaeagnus umbellata).

 

     (iii) (ii) Any of the following restricted mollusk species,

 

including a hybrid or genetically engineered variant of the species

 

or an egg of the species or of a hybrid or genetically engineered

 

variant:

 

     (A) Quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis).

 

     (B) Zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha).

 

     (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.