HOUSE BILL 1172
State of Washington | 67th Legislature | 2021 Regular Session |
ByRepresentatives Lekanoff, Kloba, Ramel, Leavitt, Davis, Dolan, Fitzgibbon, Riccelli, Bateman, Gregerson, and Duerr; by request of Attorney General
Read first time 01/13/21.Referred to Committee on Rural Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources.
AN ACT Relating to recognizing judicially affirmed and treaty-reserved fishing rights and promoting state-tribal cooperative agreements in the management of salmon, trout, and steelhead resources; creating a new section; and repealing RCW
77.110.010,
77.110.020,
77.110.030,
77.110.040, and
77.110.900.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that chapter 77.110 RCW is inconsistent with judicially affirmed and treaty-reserved fishing rights. The legislature also finds that chapter 77.110 RCW conflicts with well-established state-tribal cooperative fishery management agreements. Therefore, the legislature acknowledges that in order to keep its commitments and relationship with Pacific Northwest tribes and to avoid any legal confusion with current cooperative agreements, it is necessary to repeal chapter 77.110 RCW. NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:
(1) RCW
77.110.010 (Declaration) and 1985 c 1 s 1;
(2) RCW
77.110.020 (Petition to congress) and 1985 c 1 s 2;
(3) RCW
77.110.030 (Management of natural resources
—State policy) and 1985 c 1 s 3;
(4) RCW
77.110.040 (Declaration
—Denial of rights based on race, sex, origin, or cultural heritage) and 1985 c 1 s 4; and
(5) RCW
77.110.900 (Transmittal of act to president and congress
—1985 c 1) and 1985 c 1 s 5.
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