CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1490

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

Passed by the House March 3, 1999   Yeas 97   Nays 0 Speaker of the House of Representatives Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 6, 1999   Yeas 40   Nays 1	CERTIFICATE We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1490  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.                           Chief Clerk                           Chief Clerk
President of the Senate

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 HOUSE BILL 1490

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By House Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Hatfield, Doumit, Buck and Kessler)

Read first time 02/22/1999.

Allowing the landing of salmon caught in other states' offshore waters in Washington ports. 

    AN ACT Relating to the delivery of salmon into the ports of the state; and adding a new section to chapter 75.28 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:

    (1) The legislature finds that landing salmon into the ports of Washington state, regardless of where such salmon have been harvested, is economically beneficial to those ports as well as to the citizens of the state of Washington.  It is therefore the intent of the legislature to encourage this practice.

    (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 75.28.010(1)(b) and 75.28.113, a Washington citizen who holds a valid Oregon or California salmon troll license may land salmon taken during lawful seasons in Oregon and California into Washington ports without obtaining a salmon delivery license.  This exception is valid only when the salmon were taken in offshore waters south of Cape Falcon.

    (3) The department shall adopt rules necessary to implement this section, including rules identifying the appropriate methods for verifying that salmon were in fact taken south of Cape Falcon.

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