FINAL BILL REPORT

                                   SSB 5082

PARTIAL VETO

                                  C 362 L 91

                              SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

Brief Description:  Requiring licenses for professional salmon fishing guides.

SPONSORS:Senate Committee on Environment & Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Senators Bauer, L. Smith and Oke).

SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT & NATURAL RESOURCES

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON FISHERIES & WILDLIFE

BACKGROUND:

Persons who operate as salmon fishing guides in freshwater rivers and streams are not required to be licensed as guides.

Some people would like to license salmon fishing guides.

SUMMARY:

A professional salmon guide license is created.  Guiding for salmon in freshwater streams or rivers requires the guide license at a cost of $50 for residents and $500 for nonresidents.

A surcharge of $20 is levied on resident guides and $100 on nonresident guides for the purposes of funding regional fisheries enhancement groups.  Surcharges are in addition to the proposed guide license fees.

Legislative committees are required to evaluate the guide fees enacted in this 1991 legislation and report to the Legislature by December 31, 1991.  A wildlife code reference that recognizes the validity of Idaho or Oregon wildlife licenses in Snake River boundary waters is repealed.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

Senate      47    0

House 97    0     (House amended)

Senate      46    0     (Senate concurred)

EFFECTIVE:  July 28, 1991

Partial Veto Summary:  The section repealing reciprocity of Idaho and Oregon wildlife licenses on the Snake River is vetoed.  (See VETO MESSAGE)