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                          HOUSE BILL 1002

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State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Riley, Brough, R. Johnson, Kremen, Jones, Kessler, Basich, Mastin, Chappell, Edmondson, Flemming and Pruitt

Prefiled 12/21/92.  Read first time 01/11/93.  Referred to Committee on Fisheries & Wildlife.

Authorizing free hunting and fishing licenses for honorably discharged veterans with service-connected disabilities of thirty percent or more.

    AN ACT Relating to hunting and fishing licenses; and amending RCW 77.32.230 and 75.25.110.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 77.32.230 and 1991 sp.s. c 7 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) A person sixty-five years of age or older who is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces having a service-connected disability and who has been a resident for five years may receive upon application a state hunting and fishing license free of charge.

    (2) A blind person, or a person with a developmental disability as defined in RCW 71A.10.020 with documentation of the disability from the department of social and health services, or a physically handicapped person confined to a wheelchair may receive upon application a fishing license free of charge.

    (3) A blind person or a physically handicapped person confined to a wheelchair who has been issued a card for a permanent disability under RCW 46.16.381 may use that card in place of a fishing license unless tags, permits, stamps, or punchcards are required by this chapter.

    (4) A fishing license is not required for persons under the age of fifteen.

    (5) Tags, permits, stamps, and punchcards required by this chapter shall be purchased separately by persons receiving a free or reduced-fee license.

(6) Any honorably discharged veteran with a service-connected disability of thirty percent or more as certified by the United States department of veterans' affairs or by any branch of the armed forces of the United States and who has resided in the state for not less than one year shall receive upon application a hunting and fishing license free of charge.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 75.25.110 and 1989 c 305 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) Any of the recreational fishing licenses required by this chapter shall, upon request, be issued without charge to the following individuals upon request:

    (a) Residents under fifteen years of age and residents seventy years of age or older;

    (b) Residents who submit applications attesting that they are a person sixty-five years of age or older who is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces with a service-connected disability and who has been a resident of this state for the preceding ninety days;

    (c) A blind person;

    (d) A person with a developmental disability as defined in RCW 71A.10.020 with documentation of the disability from the department of social and health services; ((and))

    (e) A person who is physically handicapped and confined to a wheelchair; and

(f) Any honorably discharged veteran with a service-connected disability of thirty percent or more as certified by the United States department of veterans' affairs or by any branch of the armed forces of the United States and who has resided in the state for not less than one year.

    (2) Personal use licenses, salmon licenses, and sturgeon licenses shall, upon request, be issued to nonresidents under fifteen years of age.

    (3) A blind person or a physically handicapped person confined to a wheelchair who has been issued a card for a permanent disability under RCW 46.16.381 may use that card in place of a fishing license unless a punchcard is required by the director.

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