SB5343 • 2026

NE WA wolf-livestock account

Concerning the northeast Washington wolf-livestock management account.

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Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Senator Short, Senator Chapman, Senator Dozier, Senator Krishnadasan
Last action: 2025-05-12
Official status: C 247 L 25
Effective date: Not listed

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NE WA wolf-livestock account

What This Bill Does

NE WA wolf-livestock account

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5343 AMH APP H2164.1

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ADOPTED

Plain English: 5343 AMH APP H2164.1 SB 5343 - H COMM AMD By Committee on Appropriations ADOPTED 04/14/2025 Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the 1 following: 2 "Sec.

5343 AMH APP H2164.1 SB 5343 - H COMM AMD By Committee on Appropriations ADOPTED 04/14/2025 Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the 1 following: 2 "Sec.
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RCW 16.76.030 and 2023 c 475 s 920 are each amended to 3 read as follows: 4 (1) The northeast Washington wolf-livestock management account is 5 created as a nonappropriated account in the custody of the state 6 treasurer.
All receipts, any legislative appropriations, private 7 donations, or any other private or public source directed to the 8 northeast Washington wolf-livestock management grant must be 9 deposited into the account.

Bill History

2025-05-12 Senate
Effective date 7/27/2025.

Official Summary Text

NE WA wolf-livestock account

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AN ACT Relating to the northeast Washington wolf-livestock 1
management account; and amending RCW 16.76.030. 2
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:3
Sec. 1. RCW 16.76.030 and 2023 c 475 s 920 are each amended to 4
read as follows: 5
(1) The northeast Washington wolf-livestock management account is 6
created as a nonappropriated account in the custody of the state 7
treasurer. All receipts, any legislative appropriations, private 8
donations, or any other private or public source directed to the 9
northeast Washington wolf-livestock management grant must be 10
deposited into the account. Expenditures from the account may be used 11
((only for the)) for: (a) The deployment of nonlethal wolf deterrence 12
resources as described in RCW 16.76.020; (b) wolf-livestock 13
management; and (c) grants to the sheriffs' offices of Stevens and 14
Ferry counties for providing a local wildlife specialist to aid the 15
department of fish and wildlife in the management of wolves . Only the 16
director may authorize expenditures from the account in consultation 17
with the advisory board created in RCW 16.76.020. The account is 18
subject to allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, but an 19
appropriation is not required for expenditures. Interest earned by 20
deposits in the account must be retained in the account.21
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.
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(2) The advisory board created in RCW 16.76.020 may solicit and 1
receive gifts and grants from public and private sources for the 2
purposes of RCW 16.76.020. 3
(((3) During the 2021-2023 and 2023-2025 fiscal biennia, 4
expenditures from the account may be used for wolf-livestock 5
management as well as for grants to the sheriffs' offices of Stevens 6
and Ferry counties for providing a local wildlife specialist to aid 7
the department of fish and wildlife in the management of wolves.))8
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