2022_11_15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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AA: ....and by the time we gonna have next month's meeting which is December... SW: Yes. AA: .... can you find out or Barbara when does the legislative season actually open. I'm on my phone, if not, I would punch 'em up. If we had and in person site, I would have just punched it up and I would have it in front of me but via Zoom I cannot... RD: Chair, chair, it opens the first, right after New Year's—the first week of January. It's called January 7. AA: OK. RD: It goes for four months and then, and then the legislative season's over but then you have the opportunity till May— I think it's 17 when the Governor will have bills and you have the opportunity to petition him to -so that he will veto the bill. So, it crosses over so you've got—and half of that—so what's called the first two months—the legislator and the senate will be working bills in their own house. Then there's the cross over. When they cross over the senate gets legislative bills and legislative gets senate bills. And then with the cross over then you start weaning the bills that are actually gonna make it and then they need to go to Finance and Judiciary. They need to see 1) do they have the money and 2) does the AG office say that in fact it's legal. So, in the meantime, you have a lot of room for professional lobbyists to do what they do up for a work week, you know, I got to ask you something—the Commissioners— how many of you guys hunt by committee? How many of you fish by committee? Could you raise your hand? AA: By committee? RD: Yeah, by committee. Abraham —what you're doing is you're tying yourselves down here. I've done it. It takes me at least 40 hours—does anybody have 40 hours to track the legislature? If you don't why are you forming a commission that you're never gonna be able to fulfill?That's my question. AG: Austin Griffey— District 6. Can we form a paying legislator so we can get paid to do the 40 hours of work? I'll be there. NR: Natalie Reynolds—this is District 7 and I'm in. AA: Abraham — District 5. 1 didn't give a whole 40 hours a week on it, but I gave a very substantial amount of time last season and so has some of the members from the public that's actually in our audience and I know Brian has and Leomana, you know, so we understand the process, right? So, and that was not even having a full committee last year. So anymore discussion on this motion? 24