BILL · 2017–18 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 6198
SB 6198: Rec. fishing & hunting
Increasing participation in recreational fishing and hunting.
Summary
- Raises the minimum age requirement for fishing licenses from 15 to 16 years of age.
- Eliminates the restriction on the use of a temporary combination license on opening day of the lowland lake fishing season.
- Creates a one-time hunting license discount for first-time resident hunters who have completed a hunter education program.
- Authorizes the creation and sale of a multi-year combination license at a fee lower than the combined cost of the licenses.
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Did not pass Did not pass · stalled on the Senate floor
- IntroducedJan 10, 2018
- Out of committeeFeb 2, 2018
- Passed Senatestopped here
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Dean Takko (D-19)
- Introduced
- January 10, 2018 in the Senate
- Last action
- February 22, 2018
- Requested by
- State agency
- Companion bill
- HB 2505
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
- Versions
- SB 6198, SSB 6198
AN ACT Relating to increasing participation in recreational fishing and hunting;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Dean Takko (D-19)
4 co-sponsors (2 Democrats, 2 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes.
History
- Senate Rules "X" file. (SSB 6198)
- Senate Rules "X" file.
- Passed to Rules Committee for second reading. (SSB 6198)
- Passed to Rules Committee for second reading.
- AWNP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 6198)
- AWNP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
- First reading, referred to Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks.
SB 6198 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 6198 (2025–26) Accounts
- SB 6198 (2023–24) LEOFF 2 board employees
- SB 6198 (2019–20) Balanced budget/related fund
- SB 6198 (2015–16) Fingerprints/DUI arrests
- SB 6198 (2013–14) Sport shooting ranges
- SB 6198 (2011–12) State agency procurement
- SB 6198 (2009–10) Foreign and alien insurers
- SB 6198 (2007–08) Groundwater for firefighting