H-1312.1
HOUSE BILL 2003
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By Representatives Reeves, Fitzgibbon, and Pollet
Read first time 02/20/25. Referred to Committee on Appropriations.
AN ACT Relating to the Columbia river recreational salmon and steelhead endorsement program; adding new sections to chapter 77.12 RCW; and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 77.12 RCW to read as follows:
The Columbia river recreational salmon and steelhead endorsement program account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts from Columbia river salmon and steelhead endorsement purchases under section 2 of this act and gifts made for purposes of the Columbia river recreational salmon and steelhead endorsement program must be deposited into the account. Expenditures from the account may be used only to facilitate recreational salmon and steelhead selective fishing opportunities on the Columbia river and its tributaries, including scientific monitoring and evaluation, data collection, permitting, reporting, and enforcement. Only the director or the director's designee may authorize expenditures from the account. The account is subject to allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, but an appropriation is not required for expenditures.