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                                         SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 3951

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                                                            AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

                                                                            C 241 L 85

State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Human Services and Corrections (originally sponsored by Senator Peterson)

Read first time 3/8/85.

AN ACT Relating to Northern State Hospital; creating a new section; making an appropriation; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     A feasibility study shall be conducted under the direction of the Skagit county council of governments of the reuse of the facilities at Northern State Hospital.  The study shall be completed by June 30, 1986, and shall include but not be limited to:

          (1) The establishment of a service center for the neurologically impaired; and

          (2) The utilization of eight hundred acres for a fairground and location of an agricultural technical center in northwestern Washington.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     There is appropriated from the general fund to the department of community development to be allocated to the Skagit county council of governments for the biennium ending June 30, 1985, the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to carry out the purposes of this act:  PROVIDED, That the appropriation shall not be spent unless the Skagit county council of governments provides at least ten thousand dollars in matching funds.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.