CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6098
53rd Legislature
1994 Regular Session
Passed by the Senate February 10, 1994 YEAS 47 NAYS 0
President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 2, 1994 YEAS 96 NAYS 0 |
CERTIFICATE
I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6098 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. |
Speaker of the House of Representatives |
Secretary
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Governor of the State of Washington |
Secretary of State State of Washington |
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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6098
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Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session
State of Washington 53rd Legislature 1994 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Agriculture (originally sponsored by Senators M. Rasmussen, Newhouse, Snyder and Quigley; by request of Department of Agriculture)
Read first time 02/02/94.
AN ACT Relating to the dairy inspection program; and amending RCW 15.36.105 and 15.36.107.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 15.36.105 and 1993 1st sp.s. c 19 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
There is levied on all milk processed in this state an assessment not to exceed fifty-four one-hundredths of one cent per hundredweight. The director shall determine, by rule, an assessment, that with contribution from the general fund, will support an inspection program to maintain compliance with the provisions of the pasteurized milk ordinance of the national conference on interstate milk shipment. All assessments shall be levied on the operator of the first milk plant receiving the milk for processing. This shall include milk plants that produce their own milk for processing and milk plants that receive milk from other sources. All moneys collected under this section shall be paid to the director by the twentieth day of the succeeding month for the previous month's assessments. The director shall deposit the funds into the dairy inspection account hereby created within the agricultural local fund established in RCW 43.23.230. The funds shall be used only to provide inspection services to the dairy industry. If the operator of a milk plant fails to remit any assessments, that sum shall be a lien on any property owned by him or her, and shall be reported by the director and collected in the manner and with the same priority over other creditors as prescribed for the collection of delinquent taxes under chapters 84.60 and 84.64 RCW.
((This section shall
take effect July 1, 1992, and shall expire June 30, 1994.)) This section
shall expire June 30, 1995.
Sec. 2. RCW 15.36.107 and 1992 c 160 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) There is created a dairy inspection program advisory committee. The committee shall consist of nine members. The committee shall be appointed by the director from names submitted by dairy producer organizations or from handlers of milk products. The committee shall consist of four members who are producers of milk or their representatives, and four members who are handlers or their representatives, and one member who must be a producer-handler.
(2) The purpose of this advisory committee is to assist the director by providing recommendations regarding the dairy inspection program, that are consistent with the pasteurized milk ordinance. The advisory committee shall (a) review and evaluate the program including the efficiency of the administration of the program, the adequacy of the level of inspection staff, the ratio of inspectors to number of dairy farm inspections per year, and the ratio of inspectors to management employees; and (b) consider alternatives to the state program, which may include privatization of various elements of the inspection program.
(3) The committee shall meet as necessary to complete its work. Meetings of the committee are subject to the open public meetings act.
(((4) Not later than
October 15, 1992, the advisory committee shall issue a preliminary report of
its findings to the dairy industry. The committee shall solicit comments from
the dairy industry which shall be reflected in the committee's final report.
(5) Not
later than December 1, 1992, the advisory committee shall report to the
agricultural committees of the house of representatives and senate its
recommendations for long-term structure and funding of the dairy inspection
program.))
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