CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1521

                        53rd Legislature

                      1993 Regular Session

Passed by the House April 20, 1993   Yeas 97   Nays 0 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 6, 1993   Yeas 35   Nays 13

CERTIFICATE I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1521 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                                                      HOUSE BILL 1521

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                                                           AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

                                                       Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session

State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representative Valle; by request of Office of Financial Management

Read first time 01/29/93.  Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

Funding the state auditor municipal corporation division.

          AN ACT Relating to funding for the state auditor's office; amending RCW 43.09.230; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

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

        Sec. 1.  RCW 43.09.270 and 1991 sp.s. c 16 s 920 are each amended to read as follows:

          The expense of maintaining and operating the division ((shall be paid out of the state general fund:  PROVIDED, That)) of municipal corporations and those expenses directly related to the prescribing of accounting systems, training, maintenance of working capital including reserves for late and uncollectable accounts and necessary adjustments to billings, and field audit supervision, shall be considered as expenses of auditing public accounts within the meaning of RCW 43.09.280 and 43.09.282, and shall be prorated for that purpose equally among all entities directly affected by such service.

          ((During the fiscal biennium ending June 30, 1993, the expense of maintaining and operating the division of municipal corporations shall be paid from the municipal revolving fund under RCW 43.09.282.))

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  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 July 1, 1993.

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