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BILL · 2015–16 SESSION

HB 1119: Hunter safety & minimum ages

Making changes to Title 77 RCW that gives tools to the department of fish and wildlife to ensure hunter safety by focusing on the actual person hunting and not the sporting equipment used by the hunter including, but not limited to, establishing the age of fourteen as the minimum age to participate in unaccompanied hunting.

Summary

  • Provides the Department of Fish and Wildlife with the authority to issue two new fees related to hunter education training programs.
  • Establishes the age of 8 as the minimum age to purchase hunting licenses and enroll in a hunter education training program, and the age of 14 as the minimum age to hunt unaccompanied.
  • Makes minor changes to the hunter education authorizing statutes.

From the House Bill Analysis 2015 (HB 1119), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 13, 2015
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Brian Blake (D-19)
Introduced
January 13, 2015 in the House
Last action
March 10, 2016
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to making changes to Title 77 RCW that gives tools to the department of fish and wildlife to ensure hunter safety by focusing on the actual person hunting and not the sporting equipment used by the hunter including, but not limited to, establishing the age of fourteen as the minimum age to participate in unaccompanied hunting;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Brian Blake (D-19)

3 co-sponsors (1 Democrat, 2 Republicans)

Vincent Buys R-42Mia Gregerson D-33Luanne Van Werven R-42

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  4. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  5. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  6. First reading, referred to Agriculture & Natural Resources (Not Officially read and referred until adoption of Introduction report).

HB 1119 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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