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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2315

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

By House Committee on Agriculture & Rural Development (originally sponsored by Representatives Rayburn, Nealey, Belcher, Grant, R. Johnson, Jacobsen, Kremen and Rasmussen)

Read first time 02/05/92.  Authorizing nursery dealer license surcharges, the proceeds of which will support research.

     AN ACT Relating to horticultural nurseries; adding a new section to chapter 15.13 RCW; and providing an effective date.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 15.13 RCW to read as follows:

     The director may, with the advice of the advisory committee created under RCW 15.13.335, establish by rule a surcharge to be added to the fee established for a nursery dealer license under RCW 15.13.280.  The surcharge applied to each license annually shall not exceed twenty percent times the amount of the license fee without the surcharge.  Such a surcharge shall be paid at the same time that the licensing fee is paid.  Revenue collected from the surcharge shall be deposited in the agricultural local fund and shall be used solely to support research projects that are of general benefit to the horticultural nursery industry and are recommended by the advisory committee created under RCW 15.13.335.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.      This act shall take effect July 1, 1992.