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Bill to restrict young hunters misses deadline OLYMPIA -- Lawmakers will not be stopping the state's youngest hunters from going out alone.Legislation requiring adults accompany hunters under the age of 14 did not pass the state Senate by Friday's deadline to act on bills that are not necessary to implement the budget. "I just think they ran out of floor time," said the bill's author, Rep. Brian Blake, D-Aberdeen. Blake sought to restore rules that were in effect in Washington until 1994. That year, the Legislature erased any restrictions on young hunters other than to require them to have a license. The legislation that cleared the House in March applied to hunting on public lands only. It required the supervising adults to be licensed hunters and keep the young hunter within earshot or eyesight at all times. Blake also wrote a bill requiring those hiking, biking or recreating in some manner on public lands where hunting is allowed to wear fluorescent orange clothing. It did not come up for a vote in committee. Those bills emerged following the tragic shooting death of an Oso woman in August 2008. She was allegedly killed by a 14-year-old Concrete boy who was hunting bear with his 16-year-old brother. She was shot in the head when she bent over to put a jacket into a backpack. State officials said she was the only nonhunter to die in 515 gun-related incidents involving hunters dating back to 1980. Though disappointed by the outcome this session, Blake said he hoped the dialogue spurred by the bills would "make the outdoors a little safer." State Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano Island, said she would have voted for the bill had it come up. "It was one of those things that should have happened," she said. "It is a good bill now. It'll be a better bill next year." Jerry Cornfield: 360-352-8623, jcornfield@heraldnet.com. |
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