CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5982

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate April 22, 1991

  Yeas 45   Nays 0

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 22, 1991

  Yeas 90   Nays 4

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Approved

Governor of the State of Washington

CERTIFICATE

I, Gordon Golob, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5982 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Secretary

                                     FILED         

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington

                  _______________________________________________

                                 SENATE BILL 5982

                              AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

                  _______________________________________________

                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senators McDonald, Roach, Johnson, McCaslin, Gaspard, Rinehart, Murray, Hayner, Wojahn and Snyder; by request of Governor Gardner and Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Read first time April 20, 1991.  Referred to Committee on .Replacing federal funding for free and reduced meals during the teachers' work stoppage.

     AN ACT Relating to feeding school children during teachers' work stoppage; creating new sections; making an appropriation; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.      The legislature finds that state school feeding programs are essential to the health and well-being of many children and that continuing these programs during a teachers' work stoppage is in the best interests of the state of Washington.

     The legislature intends to continue to provide food to eligible children during the teachers' work stoppage, which began on April 18, 1991, in forty-six districts throughout the state.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.      The superintendent of public instruction may reimburse school districts with state funds for the amount of any unavailable federal share of funds for breakfasts or lunches actually provided to children during the teachers' work stoppage that began April 18, 1991.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.      The sum of two million dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 1991, from the general fund to the superintendent of public instruction solely for the purpose of section 2 of this act.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.      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 immediately.