CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6556

                        53rd Legislature

                      1994 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate March 6, 1994   YEAS 46   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 6556 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6556

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                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

             Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session

State of Washington      53rd Legislature     1994 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Senators Hargrove and Snyder)

Read first time 02/04/94.

Allowing a nonprofit television reception improvement district to rent space from the department of natural resources for less than the fair market value of the property.

    AN ACT Relating to the rental of public lands; adding a new section to chapter 79.12 RCW; creating a new section; 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 79.12 RCW to read as follows:

    The department of natural resources shall determine the fair market rental rate for leases to nonprofit television reception improvement districts.  It is the intent of the legislature to appropriate general funds to pay a portion of the rent charged to nonprofit television reception improvement districts.  It is the further intent of the legislature that such a lessee pay an annual lease rent of fifty percent of the fair market rental rate, as long as there is a general fund appropriation to compensate the trusts for the remainder of the fair market rental rate.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  If specific funding for the purposes of this act referencing this act by bill number is not provided by June 30, 1994, in the omnibus appropriations act, this act is null and void.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1994.

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