Requires an applicant for a game fish guide license or food fish guide license to include with the applicant's application a sworn declaration certifying whether the area of the applicant's operations will include federally recognized navigable waters with a motorized vessel.
Authorizes the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) to, for one year from the date of a conviction of Unlawfully Acting as a Game Fish Guide, Food Fish Guide, or Chartering Without a License, deny the convicted person's applications for a game fish guide license, food fish guide license, or charter boat operator license.
Authorizes the WDFW to suspend a person's game fish guide, food fish guide, or charter boat operator license if that person is convicted of two or more violations of any WDFW rule within 12 months regarding seasons, bag limits, species, size, sex, or other possession restrictions while engaged in game fish guide, food fish guide, or charter boat operator activities.
Requires the WDFW to issue an identifying decal to all game fish guides, food fish guides, and charter boat operators that prominently displays a guide or charter boat operator's license number and requires a game fish guide, food fish guide, or charter boat operator to display the identifying decal on the guide or charter boat operator's vessel in an easily visible location.
Creates a combination fish guide license that allows the holder to offer or perform the services of a game fish guide, food fish guide, or charter boat operator (both salmon charter and non-salmon charter), and allows the WDFW to adopt rules to create and sell a separate combination license for food fish guide and game fish guide activities only.
From the Substitute House Bill Report (SSB 5824), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Enacted (partial veto)Enacted with partial veto · Chapter 97, Laws of 2015