Sport Fishing Stimulus Act 2015 (SB345)
 

I looked around to see if this was discussed on the forum, and if CCA is involved. I received this email from California Sportfishing League so I attached it, via PDF.


Apparently the Bill would make your license valid for 12 full months (not by Calendar year), and it would decrease Fishing License fees for 16-17 year olds to $8.25 a year instead of the full pop of a license.

I'm just curious if anyone knows about it or has heard about it?

Attached is a link I found online in regards to the bill as well.

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fa...earch_keywords=


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I went to their website and came across this

http://www.sportfishingconservation....-to-fund-mpas/

http://www.sportfishingconservation....alue-Study.pdf

I would go one further. If there is a surplus of funds that they're intending to raid then an effort should be made to reduce license fees. Average state fishing license is $26.73 and $28.30 for coastal states.

The SB would also allow the following(could benefit organizations like HOW):
Exempts bona fide charitable organizations from possession limits
This would allow non-profits to solicit donations in recreationally-caught fish without being over the organization’s possession limit. For example, an organization may wish to solicit recreationally caught fish for a Feed the Hungry event. The same exemption for non-profits and hunted game was recently signed into law by Gov. Brown.

It's about time they fix that issue. Always pissed me off it expired Dec. 31 no matter when you buy it. Really hope it passes :)