HB 1716-S2 - DIGEST

(DIGEST AS ENACTED)

     Authorizes an amount not to exceed ninety-one thousand dollars to be used for warm water fish culture at the Rod Meseberg warm water fish production facility during the biennium ending June 30, 2001.

     Directs the department to deposit in the warm water game fish account the sum of one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars each fiscal year during the fiscal years 1999 and 2000, based on two hundred fifty thousand warm water anglers.  Beginning in fiscal year 2001, and each year thereafter, the deposit to the warm water game fish account established in this act shall be adjusted annually to reflect the actual numbers of license holders fishing for warm water game fish based on an annual survey of licensed anglers from the previous year conducted by the department beginning with the April 1, 1999, to March 31, 2000, license year survey.

     Provides that, if specific funding for the purposes of section 1 of this act, referencing this act by bill or chapter number, is not provided by June 30, 1999, in the omnibus appropriations act, section 1 of this act is null and void.