This bill adds new sections to chapter 88.02 RCW creating a voluntary donation option at initial or renewal vessel registration to support salmon preservation through pinniped management in the lower Columbia River area. At registration, the department, county auditors, or other agents must give vessel owners the opportunity to donate $1 or more in whole dollars; donations are voluntary and may be refused. Donations are deposited into a newly created sea lion predation control account in the state treasury, and those moneys may be spent only after appropriation and may not be used to supplant existing funds received by the Department of Fish and Wildlife or other state agencies for pinniped management in the lower Columbia River area. The bill also reenacts and amends RCW 43.84.092 to establish a new "treasury income account" to receive all earnings from investing surplus treasury balances, to authorize monthly distribution of those earnings by the state treasurer, and to credit the general fund except for a long list of named accounts (including the sea lion predation control account) that receive a proportionate share based on average daily balances. The provision directs that refunds or allocations required under the federal Cash Management Improvement Act (CMIA) and payments to financial institutions for purchased banking services occur before distributions, that OFM determine amounts due to or from the federal government and may direct transfers, and that certain permanent fund earnings be allocated to their beneficiary accounts. The text specifies that CMIA refunds and certain banking payments do not require appropriation. The act includes multiple section-specific effective dates and expirations tied to RCW 74.76.040 and calendar dates: the act takes effect July 1, 2026; various sections take effect or expire between July 1, 2028 and January 1, 2029 or when RCW 74.76.040 expires as specified. The extracted material omits the specific name of "the department" referenced in the new chapter 88.02 sections, cuts off portions of the reenacted RCW 43.84.092 lists and subsections mid-sentence, and repeats reenactment language in multiple places, so some details and the complete lists and procedural text are incomplete or unclear from the provided excerpts.

If enacted, boat owners registering or renewing vessel registrations will be offered the option to add a voluntary $1-or-more donation to support managing sea lions in the lower Columbia River with the goal of preserving salmon. Those small, voluntary donations would flow into a new "sea lion predation control" account in the state treasury and could be spent for pinniped management only after the Legislature approves appropriations; agencies that already get state funding for pinniped work cannot have those funds replaced by this new account. County auditors and whatever registration agents the director appoints will need to add and collect the donation option at registration, creating a modest administrative task and small ongoing revenue stream; the state treasurer will deposit donations and handle monthly earnings distributions while OFM handles any federal cash-management transfers required. The bill takes effect July 1, 2026, and several sections have expiration dates in 2028–2029 tied to RCW 74.76.040; the text does not name the specific “department” responsible for implementation nor detail the appropriation or spending priorities, so some practical implementation details remain unclear.