04/15/2000 03:15 PM Senate FIN

     HOUSE BILL NO. 25                                                                                                          
     "An Act relating to a municipal river habitat                                                                              
     protection tax credit."                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
DAVID   GUTTENBERG,  Staff,   Representative  John   Davies,                                                                    
offered to  answer questions of  the members.   He explained                                                                    
that the  bill is a  land management tool that  provides the                                                                    
option  of  protecting  fish habitat  along  the  rivers  by                                                                    
offering  a  tax  credit  to  property  owners  along  those                                                                    
waterways.   It would not  be an unfunded mandate  and would                                                                    
be entirely optional at the local government level.                                                                             
                                                                                                                                
Senator Wilken spoke  in support of the  bill and encouraged                                                                    
the Committee's support.                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                
Senator Wilken MOVED  to report HB 25 out  of Committee with                                                                    
individual recommendation  and with the  accompanying fiscal                                                                    
notes.  There being NO OBJECTION, it was so ordered.                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
HB  25  was  reported  out  of  Committee  with  "individual                                                                    
recommendations" and with fiscal  notes by the Department of                                                                    
Fish and  Game and  the Department  of Community  & Economic                                                                    
Development.                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Torgerson