CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5648

56th Legislature

1999 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate March 13, 1999

YEAS 43 NAYS 0

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 8, 1999

YEAS 95 NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5648 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

Secretary

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

Approved

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SENATE BILL 5648

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Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington 56th Legislature 1999 Regular Session

By Senator Haugen

Read first time 02/01/1999. Referred to Committee on Commerce, Trade, Housing & Financial Institutions.

AN ACT Relating to providing consistency in definitions regarding businesses furnishing lodging; and amending RCW 19.48.010.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 19.48.010 and 1929 c 216 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

Any building held out to the public to be an inn, hotel or public lodging house or place where sleeping accommodations, whether with or without meals, or the facilities for preparing the same, are furnished for hire to transient guests, in which ((~~fifteen~~)) three or more rooms are used for the accommodation of such guests, shall for the purposes of this chapter and chapter 60.64 RCW, or any amendment thereof, only, be defined to be a hotel, and whenever the word hotel shall occur in this chapter and chapter 60.64 RCW, or any amendment thereof, it shall be construed to mean a hotel as herein described.