CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5102

Chapter 197, Laws of 1997

55th Legislature

1997 Regular Session

PERSONAL USE FOOD FISH LICENSES--ANNUAL RECREATIONAL SURCHARGE

EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/27/97

Passed by the Senate March 15, 1997

YEAS 47 NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 15, 1997

YEAS 86 NAYS 8

CERTIFICATE

I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5102 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

MIKE O'CONNELL

Secretary

Approved April 24, 1997

FILED

April 24, 1997 - 4:36 p.m.

GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5102

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Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Natural Resources & Parks (originally sponsored by Senators Oke and Winsley)

Read first time 01/27/97.

AN ACT Relating to an annual recreational surcharge on personal use food fish licenses; and amending RCW 75.54.140.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 75.54.140 and 1993 sp.s. c 2 s 97 are each amended to read as follows:

Beginning January 1, 1994, persons who recreationally fish for salmon or marine bottomfish in marine area codes 5 through 13 and Lake Washington and have an annual food fish license shall be assessed an annual recreational surcharge of ten dollars, in addition to other licensing requirements. Persons who recreationally fish for salmon or marine bottomfish in marine area codes 5 through 13 and Lake Washington with a three-consecutive-day personal use food fish license shall be assessed an annual recreational surcharge of five dollars. Funds from the surcharge shall be deposited in the recreational fisheries enhancement account created in RCW 75.54.150, except that the first five hundred thousand dollars shall be deposited in the general fund before June 30, 1995, to repay the appropriation made by section 104, chapter 2, Laws of 1993 sp. sess.