CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE
SENATE BILL 6529
Chapter
68, Laws of 1996
54th
Legislature
1996
Regular Session
RECREATIONAL
FISHING AND HUNTING LICENSES--SIMPLIFICATION
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 6/6/96
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Passed by the Senate February 8, 1996
YEAS 46 NAYS 0
 JOEL PRITCHARD
President
of the Senate
Passed by
the House February 28, 1996
YEAS 93 NAYS 0
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CERTIFICATE
I, Marty
Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify
that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6529 as passed by the
Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
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CLYDE
BALLARD
Speaker
of the
House
of Representatives
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 MARTY
BROWN
Secretary
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Approved
March 13, 1996 Place Style On Codes above, and
Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
March
13, 1996 - 1:37 p.m.
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MIKE
LOWRY
Governor
of the State of Washington
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Secretary
of State
State
of Washington
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SUBSTITUTE
SENATE BILL 6529
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Passed Legislature -
1996 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th
Legislature 1996 Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/31/96.
Requiring the
fish and wildlife commission to simplify licensing requirements for
recreational hunting and fishing.
AN ACT Relating to fish
and wildlife department recreational fishing and hunting licenses; and creating
a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec.
1. (1) The fish and wildlife
commission shall develop proposed legislation for the 1998 legislative session
that will simplify, consolidate, and modernize the recreational fishing and
hunting license program. The commission shall evaluate the benefits and
drawbacks of eliminating the distinction between food fish and game fish and
make recommendations to retain or revise the statutes accordingly. An analysis
must also be made to determine the suitability of merging the wildlife fund
with the general fund.
The goal of the license
simplification request legislation shall be to reduce the number of
recreational licenses required while not adversely affecting the revenue to the
department. The purpose of license simplification is to remove unnecessary
burdens placed upon the recreational clientele of the department and to ease
the sale of licenses by the license dealers. Evaluations must be made of modernized
computer-based systems utilized in other states.
The requirements for
individual catch or harvest records must be reviewed, and the commission shall
determine on a case-by-case basis if some of these individual data-keeping
requirements can be simplified or eliminated.
The commission shall
also evaluate methods to improve and simplify service to the license dealers,
investigate technology improvements to improve the durability of license forms
to the deteriorating effects of moisture and laundry soap, and develop
recommendations for adjusting the price of licenses to reflect the changes due
to inflation or the need for program changes.
The proposed
legislation must be submitted to the appropriate legislative committees on or
before December 1, 1997.
(2) The commission
shall review the current license system to achieve better service to the public
and for the dealers during the interim period until a more modern system is in
place.
(3) The commission
shall make changes in the current system to eliminate the fraudulent issuance
of duplicate licenses and shall report back to the legislature on or before
December 1, 1996, on the present system improvements and fraud elimination
procedures.
Passed
the Senate February 8, 1996.
Passed
the House February 28, 1996.
Approved by the Governor March 13, 1996.
Filed in
Office of Secretary of State March 13, 1996.