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                          HOUSE BILL 1061

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Representatives Buck, Cairnes, Benton, Goldsmith, Thompson, Hatfield, D. Schmidt, Pennington, McMorris, Smith, Sheahan, Pelesky, McMahan, Tokuda, Schoesler, Boldt, Foreman and Kremen

Read first time 01/10/95.  Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.

Allowing active hunter education training instructors to receive free hunting licenses.

    AN ACT Relating to licenses; amending RCW 77.32.101; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The legislature finds that people who provide hunter education training instruction merit recognition on behalf of their efforts to promote safe and responsible hunting practices.  Therefore, it is the intent of the legislature that volunteer instructors who have been certified for at least three years receive Washington state department of fish and wildlife hunting licenses free of charge.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 77.32.101 and 1994 c 255 s 11 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) A combination hunting and fishing license allows a resident holder to hunt, and to fish for game fish throughout the state.  The fee for this license is twenty-nine dollars.

    (2) A hunting license allows the holder to hunt throughout the state.  The fee for this license is fifteen dollars for residents and one hundred fifty dollars for nonresidents.  Residents who have been authorized and active instructors for at least three years and who remain active instructors under RCW 77.32.155 shall receive a hunting license free of charge.

    (3) A fishing license allows the holder to fish for game fish throughout the state.  The fee for this license is seventeen dollars for residents fifteen years of age or older and under seventy years of age, three dollars for residents seventy years of age or older, twenty dollars for nonresidents under fifteen years of age, and forty-eight dollars for nonresidents fifteen years of age or older.

    (4) A steelhead fishing license allows the holder of a combination hunting and fishing license or a fishing license issued under this section to fish for steelhead throughout the state.  The fee for this license is eighteen dollars.

    (5) A juvenile steelhead license allows residents under fifteen years of age and nonresidents under fifteen years of age who hold a fishing license to fish for steelhead throughout the state.  The fee for this license is six dollars and entitles the holder to take up to five steelhead at which time another juvenile steelhead license may be purchased.  Any person who purchases a juvenile steelhead license is prohibited from purchasing a steelhead license for the same calendar year.

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