CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE BILL 5504
67TH LEGISLATURE
2022 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the Senate January 28, 2022 Yeas 43 Nays 0
President of the Senate Passed by the House March 3, 2022 Yeas 97 Nays 0
Speaker of the House of Representatives | CERTIFICATE I, Sarah Bannister, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5504 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
Secretary Secretary |
Approved | FILED |
| Secretary of State State of Washington |
SENATE BILL 5504
Passed Legislature - 2022 Regular Session
State of Washington | 67th Legislature | 2022 Regular Session |
BySenators Warnick, Van De Wege, Billig, Conway, Das, Lovelett, Mullet, Nguyen, Randall, Saldaña, Wagoner, J. Wilson, and L. Wilson; by request of Department of Fish and Wildlife
Prefiled 12/07/21.Read first time 01/10/22.Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks.
AN ACT Relating to extending current discover pass free days from state parks to all state recreation sites and lands; and amending RCW
79A.80.050.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW
79A.80.050 and 2012 c 261 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) A discover pass or a day-use permit are not required within a state park for persons who have a valid camper registration, or annual natural investment permit, issued by the state parks and recreation commission.
(2) ((The))In consultation with the director of the department of fish and wildlife and the commissioner of public lands, the director of the state parks and recreation commission must ((provide up to twelve days a))designate up to 12 days per calendar year where entry to ((state parks))a recreation site or lands is free. At least three of those days must be on weekends. When practicable, the free access days should be timed to correspond with any similar free access days planned by the national park service for national parks located in the general region of high volume state parks.
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