CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5017

                   Chapter 227, Laws of 1995

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

      COMMERCIAL FISHERY LICENSES‑-SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR

              YEAR IN WHICH FISHING IS NOT ALLOWED

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/23/95

Passed by the Senate April 18, 1995   YEAS 46   NAYS 0 JOEL PRITCHARD 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.

CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives

MARTY BROWN                             Secretary

Approved May 3, 1995 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                         May 3, 1995 - 3:08 p.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

          _______________________________________________

                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5017

          _______________________________________________

                      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.

    Passed the Senate April 18, 1995.

    Passed the House April 6, 1995.

Approved by the Governor May 3, 1995.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 3, 1995.