HB 1128 - DIGEST

(DIGEST AS ENACTED)

Provides that, if a person is convicted of an offense, has an uncontested notice of infraction, fails to appear at a hearing to contest an infraction, or is found to have committed an infraction three times in ten years involving any violation of recreational hunting or fishing laws or rules, the department shall order a revocation and suspension of all recreational hunting and fishing privileges for two years.

Declares that a violation punishable as an infraction counts towards the revocation and suspension of recreational hunting and fishing privileges only where that violation is: (1) Punishable as a crime on the effective date of this act and is subsequently decriminalized; or

(2) One of the following violations, as they exist on the effective date of this act: RCW 77.15.160 (1) or (2); WAC 220-56-116; WAC 220-56-315(11); or WAC 220-56-355 (1) through (4).

Authorizes the commission to, by rule, designate additional infractions that do not count towards the revocation and suspension of recreational hunting and fishing privileges.

Provides that neither the commission nor the director have the authority to adopt a rule providing that a violation punishable as an infraction shall be a crime.