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HB2003 • 2026
Concerning the Columbia river recreational salmon and steelhead endorsement program.
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Columbia river endorsement
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0 • Ways & Means
Plain English: 2003 AMS WM S3357.1 HB 2003 - S COMM AMD By Committee on Ways & Means ADOPTED 04/26/2025 Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the 1 following: 2 "NEW SECTION.
1123 • Orcutt
Plain English: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2003 AMH ORCU JOND 394 1 - Official Print 2003 AMH ORCU JOND 394 HB 2003 - H AMD 1123 By Representative Orcutt NOT ADOPTED 04/18/2025 On page 2, after line 16, insert the following: "NEW SECTION.
Effective date 1/1/2026.
Columbia river endorsement
AN ACT Relating to the Columbia river recreational salmon and 1 steelhead endorsement program; adding new sections to chapter 77.12 2 RCW; and providing an effective date. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:4 NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 77.12 5 RCW to read as follows: 6 The Columbia river recreational salmon and steelhead endorsement 7 program account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. All 8 receipts from Columbia river salmon and steelhead endorsement 9 purchases under section 2 of this act and gifts made for purposes of 10 the Columbia river recreational salmon and steelhead endorsement 11 program must be deposited into the account. Expenditures from the 12 account may be used only to facilitate recreational salmon and 13 steelhead selective fishing opportunities on the Columbia river and 14 its tributaries, including scientific monitoring and evaluation, data 15 collection, permitting, reporting, and enforcement. Only the director 16 or the director's designee may authorize expenditures from the 17 account. The account is subject to allotment procedures under chapter 18 43.88 RCW, but an appropriation is not required for expenditures.19 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. p. 1 HB 2003 NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 77.12 1 RCW to read as follows: 2 (1) In addition to a recreational license required under this 3 chapter, a Columbia river salmon and steelhead endorsement is 4 required in order for any person 15 years of age or older to fish 5 recreationally for salmon or steelhead in the Columbia river and its 6 tributaries where these fisheries have been authorized by the 7 department. The cost for each endorsement is $7.50 for residents and 8 nonresidents and $6 for youth and seniors. The department shall 9 deposit all receipts from endorsement purchases into the Columbia 10 river recreational salmon and steelhead endorsement program account 11 created in section 1 of this act. 12 (2) For the purposes of this section and section 1 of this act, 13 the term "Columbia river" means the Columbia river from a line across 14 the Columbia river between Rocky Point in Washington and Tongue Point 15 in Oregon to the Chief Joseph dam. 16 NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. This act takes effect January 1, 2026.17 --- END --- p. 2 HB 2003