BILL · 1997–98 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 5561
SB 5561: Geoduck harvesting
Regulating geoduck harvesting.
Summary
- The Department of Natural Resources designates harvest tracts, administers geoduck harvest agreements, and enforces commercial violations. It is unlawful to commercially harvest geoducks from bottoms shallower than 18 feet below the mean lower low water, or that lie in an area bounded by the line of ordinary high tide and a line 200 yards seaward from and parallel to the ordinary high tide line.
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Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
- IntroducedJan 31, 1997
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Dan Swecker (R-20)
- Introduced
- January 31, 1997 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 12, 1998
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
- Versions
- SB 5561, SSB 5561
Sponsors
Votes
No recorded floor votes.
History
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SB 5561 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
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