CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 6740



60th Legislature
2008 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 13, 2008
  YEAS 48   NAYS 0


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President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 5, 2008
  YEAS 96   NAYS 0


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Speaker of the House of Representatives


CERTIFICATE

I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6740 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.


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Secretary
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Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 6740
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Passed Legislature - 2008 Regular Session
State of Washington60th Legislature2008 Regular Session

By Senators Regala, King, McAuliffe, and Rasmussen

Read first time 01/22/08.   Referred to Committee on Early Learning & K-12 Education.



     AN ACT Relating to the provision of teacher certification services; and amending RCW 28A.410.060.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 28A.410.060 and 2005 c 497 s 206 are each amended to read as follows:
     The fee for any certificate, or any renewal thereof, issued by the authority of the state of Washington, and authorizing the holder to teach or perform other professional duties in the public schools of the state shall be not less than one dollar or such reasonable fee therefor as the Washington professional educator standards board by rule shall deem necessary therefor. The fee must accompany the application and cannot be refunded unless the application is withdrawn before it is finally considered. The educational service district superintendent, or other official authorized to receive such fee, shall within thirty days transmit the same to the treasurer of the county in which the office of the educational service district superintendent is located, to be by him or her placed to the credit of said school district or educational service district: PROVIDED, That if any school district collecting fees for the certification of professional staff does not hold a professional training institute separate from the educational service district then all such moneys shall be placed to the credit of the educational service district.
     Such fees shall be used solely for the purpose of precertification professional preparation, program evaluation, ((and)) professional in-service training programs, and provision of certification services by educational service districts, in ((accord)) accordance with rules of the Washington professional educator standards board herein authorized.

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