Title: An act relating to the salmon recovery funding board.

Brief Description: Concerning the conditioning of grants and loans by the salmon recovery funding board.

Sponsors: Senate Committee on Natural Resources, Ocean & Recreation (originally sponsored by Senators Parlette and Jacobsen).

Brief History:

Committee Activity: Natural Resources, Ocean & Recreation: 2/21/05, 2/28/05 [DPS].

Passed Senate: 3/10/05, 46-0.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES, OCEAN & RECREATION

Majority Report: That Substitute Senate Bill No. 5914 be substituted therefor, and the substitute bill do pass.Signed by Senators Jacobsen, Chair; Doumit, Vice Chair; Oke, Ranking Minority Member; Fraser, Hargrove, Morton, Spanel, Stevens and Swecker.

Staff: Vic Moon (786-7469)

Background: The Salmon Recovery Board has a very narrow range of authority to condition grants to allow the entity receiving the grant to change the terms. When grants are transferred to a different governmental entity adjustments may need to be made to accommodate the different legal requirements while keeping the basic conditions of the grant.

Summary of Bill: The provisions of the grant conditions may be changed if the spirit of the grant is maintained. A memorandum of understanding may be used to facilitate the transference of a grant as long as the habitat benefits are kept.

Appropriation: None.

Fiscal Note: Not requested.

Committee/Commission/Task Force Created: No.

Effective Date: Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For: In exchanging lands with federal agencies, the lands must be free of any binding deed of right instruments.

Testimony Against: None.

Who Testified: PRO: Bill Robinson, The Nature Conservancy; Jim Fox, Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation.

House Amendment(s): The amendment adds that changes in grant conditions require the approval of the city or county where the project is located.

Passed House: 95-1.