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SENATE
BILL 6212
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Passed
Legislature - 1992 Regular Session
State of Washington 52nd
Legislature 1992 Regular Session
Read first time 01/22/92.
Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Water Resources.Authorizing the fruit commission to change assessments for
fruits and classifications.
AN ACT
Relating to the fruit commission; and amending RCW 15.28.180.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
15.28.180 and 1983 1st ex.s. c 73 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
The
same assessment shall be made for each soft tree fruit, except that if a
two-thirds majority of the state commodity committee of any fruit recommends in
writing the levy of an additional assessment on that fruit, or any
classification thereof, for any year or years, the commission may levy such
assessment for that year or years up to the maximum of ((twelve)) eighteen
dollars for each two thousand pounds of any fruit except cherries or any
classification thereof, as to which the assessment may be increased to a
maximum of ((twenty)) thirty dollars for each two thousand
pounds, and except pears covered by this chapter, as to which the assessment
may be increased to a maximum of ((fourteen)) eighteen dollars
for each two thousand pounds: PROVIDED, That no increase in the assessment on
pears becomes effective unless the increase is first referred by the commission
to a referendum by the Bartlett pear growers of the state and is approved by a
majority of the growers voting on the referendum. The method and procedure of
conducting the referendum shall be determined by the commission. Any funds so
raised shall be expended solely for the purposes provided in this chapter and
solely for such fruit, or classification thereof.
The
commission has the authority in its discretion to exempt in whole or in part
from future assessments under this chapter, during such period as the
commission may prescribe, any of the soft tree fruits or any particular strain
or classification of them.
Passed the Senate February
12, 1992.
Passed the House March 4,
1992.
Approved
by the Governor March 26, 1992.
Filed in Office of Secretary
of State March 26, 1992.
