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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1308
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State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1993 Regular Session
By House Committee on Agriculture & Rural Development (originally sponsored by Representatives Kremen, Tate and Jacobsen)
Read first time 02/26/93.
AN ACT Relating to the beef commission; amending RCW 16.67.040 and 16.67.050; creating a new section; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 16.67.040 and 1991 c 9 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
There is hereby created a Washington state beef
commission to be thus known and designated. The commission shall be composed
of ((three)) one beef producer((s, two)), one
dairy (beef) producer((s, three)), one feeder((s)), one
livestock salesyard operator, and one meat packer. In addition there will be
one ex officio member without the right to vote from the department of
agriculture to be designated by the director thereof.
A majority of voting members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business.
All appointed members as stated in RCW 16.67.060 shall be citizens and residents of this state, over the age of twenty-five years, each of whom is and has been actually engaged in that phase of the cattle industry he or she represents for a period of five years, and has during that period derived a substantial portion of his or her income therefrom, or have a substantial investment in cattle as an owner, lessee, partner, or a stockholder owning at least ten percent of the voting stock in a corporation engaged in the production of cattle or dressed beef, or a manager or executive officer of such corporation. Producer members of the commission shall not be directly engaged in the business of being a meat packer, or as a feeder, feeding cattle other than their own. Said qualifications must continue throughout each member's term of office.
Sec. 2. RCW 16.67.050 and 1991 c 9 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
The appointive positions on the commission
shall be designated as follows: The ((three)) beef producer((s))
shall be designated position((s)) one((, two and three; one));
the dairy (beef) producer shall be designated position ((four and one,
position ten;)) two; the ((three)) feeder((s)) shall
be designated position((s five, six and seven)) three; the
livestock salesyard operator shall be designated position ((eight)) four;
the meat packer shall be designated position ((nine)) five.
The initial term of office for the members
of the commission as it is composed July 1, 1993, shall be: Position one,
three years; position two, one year; position three, two years; position four,
two years; and position five, three years. Thereafter, the regular term of
office for each position shall be three years from the date of
appointment and until their successors are appointed. ((However, the first
term of office for position ten shall terminate July 1, 1994, and the first
terms of the members whose terms began on July 1, 1969 shall be as follows:
Positions one, four and seven shall terminate July 1, 1970; positions two, five
and eight shall terminate July 1, 1971; positions three, six and nine shall
terminate July 1, 1972.))
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. The term of office of each position on the commission as it exists on the effective date of this section expires on July 1, 1993.
(1) Before June 15, 1993, the members of the beef commission shall select from among their number the beef producer, dairy (beef) producer, and feeder who shall be the members of the commission effective July 1, 1993. The commission shall promptly transmit the names of these individuals to the director who shall appoint these persons to the commission. If the commission does not make its selections in a timely manner, the director shall make the appointments from among the beef producer, dairy (beef) producer, and feeder members of the commission as it exists before July 1, 1993. The appointments made under this subsection are effective July 1, 1993.
(2) The director shall appoint the person filling position eight on the commission as it exists on the effective date of this section to position four on the commission effective July 1, 1993. The director shall appoint a qualified person to position five on the commission effective July 1, 1993.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 4. (1) Section 3 of this act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.
(2) Sections 1 and 2 of this act are necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1993.
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