CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1800

                   Chapter 195, Laws of 1993

                        53rd Legislature

                      1993 Regular Session

FUNDING OF OFFICE OF MINORITY AND WOMEN'S BUSINESS ENTERPRISES

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/93

Passed by the House April 17, 1993   Yeas 96   Nays 0 BRIAN EBERSOLE Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 18, 1993   Yeas 30   Nays 12

CERTIFICATE I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1800 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate

ALAN THOMPSON                                Chief Clerk

Approved May 6, 1993 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                              May 6, 1993 - 1:13 p.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                                                      HOUSE BILL 1800

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                                                       Passed Legislature - 1993 Regular Session

State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Ogden, Romero, Wang, Veloria, Anderson, Wineberry, Rayburn, R. Meyers, King and J. Kohl; by request of Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises

Read first time 02/10/93.  Referred to Committee on Trade, Economic Development & Housing.

Funding the office of minority and women's business enterprises.

          AN ACT Relating to the funding of the office of minority and women's business enterprises; and adding new sections to chapter 39.19 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The minority and women's business enterprises account is created in the custody of the state treasurer.  All receipts from sections 2, 3, and 4 of this act shall be deposited in the account.  Expenditures from the account may be used only for the purposes defraying all or part of the costs of the office in administering this chapter.  Only the director or the director's designee may authorize expenditures from the account.  Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  The office may charge a reasonable fee or other appropriate charge, to be set by rule adopted by the office under chapter 34.05 RCW, to a business using the services of the office.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  The office may charge to a political subdivision in this state a reasonable fee or other appropriate charge, to be set by rule adopted by the office under chapter 34.05 RCW, prorated on the relative benefit to the political subdivision, for the certification under this chapter of a business.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.  The office may charge to a state agency and educational institutions, as both are defined in RCW 39.19.020, a reasonable fee or other appropriate charge, to be set by rule adopted by the office under chapter 34.05 RCW, based upon the state agency's or educational institution's expenditure level of funds subject to the office.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 5.  Sections 1 through 4 of this act are each added to chapter 39.19 RCW.

          Passed the House April 17, 1993.

          Passed the Senate April 18, 1993.

Approved by the Governor May 6, 1993.

          Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 6, 1993.