S-0546.1
SENATE BILL 5343
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By Senators Short, Chapman, Dozier, and Krishnadasan
Read first time 01/17/25. Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources.
AN ACT Relating to the northeast Washington wolf-livestock management account; and amending RCW 16.76.030 .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 16.76.030 and 2023 c 475 s 920 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The northeast Washington wolf-livestock management account is created as a nonappropriated account in the custody of the state treasurer. All receipts, any legislative appropriations, private donations, or any other private or public source directed to the northeast Washington wolf-livestock management grant must be deposited into the account. Expenditures from the account may be used (( only for the )) for: (a) The deployment of nonlethal wolf deterrence resources as described in RCW 16.76.020 ; (b) wolf-livestock management; and (c) grants to the sheriffs' offices of Stevens and Ferry counties for providing a local wildlife specialist to aid the department of fish and wildlife in the management of wolves . Only the director may authorize expenditures from the account in consultation with the advisory board created in RCW 16.76.020 . The account is subject to allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, but an appropriation is not required for expenditures. Interest earned by deposits in the account must be retained in the account.