Senate Finance - 2026-04-16 - 1:30PM

Senate Finance Committee · April 16, 2026

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Fish & Wildlife area license proposal and paddler fee

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Jason Bachelder, identifying himself as commissioner, presented an area-license proposal to charge paddlers a modest fee to use Fish & Wildlife access areas to help cover maintenance (kiosks, mowing, plowing). He said anglers/hunters currently fund these areas and argued the fee is a fairness measure and small (below the cost of a fishing license); he estimated full implementation could yield $250,000–$290,000 over several years and that a $50,000 one-time appropriation would not replace the long-term revenue need.

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Senate Finance Committee hearing on a miscellaneous tax bill (H.933) covering Fish & Wildlife fee authority, Burlington TIFF district issues, communications-property valuation, R&D tax decoupling, and a contentious proposal to reallocate purchase-and-use revenues toward the Transportation Fund.

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