SPRINGFIELD - Gov. Pat Quinn's proposal to charge $5 per car to use Illinois state parks and increase other outdoors fees might not take effect until at least July.

Department of Natural Resources spokesman Chris McCloud said some of Quinn's proposed fee increases need lawmakers' approval, and others need to work through the department's own process for changing rules.

That could take until the state's next fiscal year, which begins in July, McCloud said.

"We don't really have a timeline for that," he said.

Among the fee proposals is a $5 charge for parking at state parks, with $25 yearly passes available. Quinn also has proposed an increase in resident fishing license fees from $12.50 to $19.50, a $3 boat launch fee for Lake Shelbyville, Rend Lake, and Carlyle Lake, and various hunting license increases.

McCloud said there's room for negotiation with lawmakers.

"These, obviously, are proposals," he said.

State Rep. Dan Reitz, a Steeleville Democrat who acts as the leader of lawmakers concerned with hunting and fishing issues, said the fee increases could be tolerable if they're guaranteed to be used for outdoors purposes.

He noted, for instance, that hunters were mostly amenable to an increase in pheasant hunting permits last year.

"I don't think most hunters would have a problem with this," he said.

Reitz did caution, though, that Quinn use common sense in implementing the fees. For example, he said it wouldn't make much sense if the state had to spend a lot of money hiring new people to collect the parking fees at parks.

Still, Reitz said, lawmakers could be inclined to go along with the new fees if they'd guaranteed parks wouldn't be closed, as they were under former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.