CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 6027

                    Chapter 23, Laws of 1992

                        52nd Legislature

                      1992 Regular Session

                NURSERY DEALER LICENSE SURCHARGE

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/1/92

Passed by the Senate February 7, 1992   Yeas 47   Nays 1                JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate Passed by the House March 3, 1992   Yeas 96   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Gordon Golob, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 6027 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

JOE KING Speaker of the        House of Representatives

GORDON A. GOLOB                                  Secretary

Approved March 20, 1992 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                 March 20, 1992 - 9:23 a.m.

BOOTH GARDNER Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                            ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 6027

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                     Passed Legislature - 1992 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

By Senators Barr, Gaspard, Sellar, Bauer, Conner, Rasmussen, Bailey and Jesernig

Read first time 01/13/92.  Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Water Resources.Funding horticultural nursery 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 under RCW 43.23.230 and shall be used solely to support research projects which 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 on July 1, 1992.

     Passed the Senate February 7, 1992.

     Passed the House March 3, 1992.

Approved by the Governor March 20, 1992.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 20, 1992.