CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5017

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate April 18, 1995   YEAS 46   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 6, 1995   YEAS 96   NAYS 1

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5017 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the        House of Representatives

Secretary

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                            SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5017

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                              AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

                     Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

State of Washington              54th Legislature             1995 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Senator Snyder)

Read first time 01/30/95.

Establishing commercial fishery license fee and renewal provisions for years with no fishing season.

     AN ACT Relating to commercial fishery licenses; adding a new section to chapter 75.28 RCW; and adding a new section to chapter 75.30 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 75.28 RCW to read as follows:

     If, for any reason, the department does not allow any opportunity for a commercial fishery during a calendar year, the department shall either:  (1) Waive the requirement to obtain a license for that commercial fishery for that year; or (2) refund applicable license fees upon return of the license.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 75.30 RCW to read as follows:

     (1) The department shall waive license requirements, including landing or poundage requirements, if, during the calendar year that a license issued pursuant to chapter 75.28 RCW is valid, no harvest opportunity occurs in the fishery corresponding to the license.

     (2) For each license limitation program, where the person failed to hold the license and failed to make landing or poundage requirements because of a license waiver by the department during the previous year, the person shall qualify for a license by establishing that the person held the license during the last year in which the license was not waived.

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