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                                             SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1792

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By House Committee on State Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Zellinsky, Schmidt, King and Ballasiotes; by request of Secretary of State)

Read first time 03/03/93. 

Providing state flags and mementos for certain official purposes.

          AN ACT Relating to state remembrances; and amending RCW 1.20.010.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

        Sec. 1.  RCW 1.20.010 and 1967 ex.s. c 65 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) The official flag of the state of Washington shall be of dark green silk or bunting and shall bear in its center ((a)) an embroidered, printed, painted, or stamped reproduction of the seal of the state of Washington ((embroidered, printed, painted or stamped thereon)).  The edges of the flag may((, or may not,)) be fringed.  If a fringe is used ((the same)), it shall be ((of)) a gold or yellow color of the same shade as the seal.  The dimensions of the flag may vary.

          The secretary of state is authorized, in his or her discretion, to provide the state flag without charge:

(a) To units of the armed forces((, without charge therefor, as in his discretion he deems entitled thereto));

(b) In memory of a state employee killed in the performance of his or her duties for the state;

(c) In memory of a current or former elected or appointed state official upon the death of that person; or

(d) To a citizen who has performed outstanding service for the benefit of the state.

(2) The secretary of state is further authorized to sell the state flag to any citizen at a price to be determined by the secretary of state.

(3) The secretary of state may present, without charge, the state flag or a similar memento to a visiting state, national, or international guest.  The flag or memento shall be provided without expense to the state.

The secretary of state may accept or request grants or gifts from citizens and other private sources to be used to defray the costs of providing flags or mementos under this subsection.  The secretary shall open and maintain a bank account into which the secretary shall deposit all moneys received under this subsection.  Such moneys and the interest accruing on them shall not constitute public funds, shall be kept segregated and apart from funds of the state, and shall not be subject to appropriation or allotment by the state or subject to chapter 43.88 RCW.

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