SB 5421-S.E - DIGEST
(DIGEST AS ENACTED)

Requires the department of fish and wildlife to create and administer a Columbia river recreational salmon and steelhead pilot stamp program. The program must facilitate continued and, to the maximum extent possible, improved recreational salmon and steelhead selective fishing opportunities on the Columbia river and its tributaries by supplementing the resources available to the department to carry out the scientific monitoring and evaluation, data collection, permitting, reporting, enforcement, and other activities necessary to provide such opportunities.

Directs the department of fish and wildlife to administer the pilot stamp program in consultation with a Columbia river salmon and steelhead recreational anglers board.

Provides that a Columbia river salmon and steelhead stamp or endorsement is not subject to the additional ten percent transaction fee on recreational licenses, permits, tags, stamps, or raffle tickets to be charged during the 2009-2011 biennium under Substitute House Bill No. 1778, if it or a subsequent version thereof becomes law.

Creates the Columbia river recreational salmon and steelhead pilot stamp program account.

Expires June 30, 2016.