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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1135

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State of Washington              54th Legislature             1995 Regular Session

By House Committee on Capital Budget (originally sponsored by Representatives McMorris, Morris, Pennington, Benton, Koster, Smith, Sheldon, Chandler, Mulliken, Foreman, L. Thomas, Schoesler, Sheahan, Honeyford, Fuhrman, Lambert, Blanton, Van Luven, Boldt, Buck, Crouse, Huff, Hickel, Thompson, Robertson, McMahan, Stevens, Sherstad, Cooke, Johnson, Delvin and Mielke)

Read first time 03/06/95.

Exempting department of corrections' incarceration, treatment, and rehabilitation facilities and department of social and health services' juvenile rehabilitation facilities from the one-half percent for art requirement for public facilities.

     AN ACT Relating to acquisition of public art; and amending RCW 43.17.200.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 43.17.200 and 1983 c 204 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, all state agencies including all state departments, boards, councils, commissions, and quasi public corporations shall allocate, as a nondeductible item, out of any moneys appropriated for the original construction of any public building, an amount of one-half of one percent of the appropriation to be expended by the Washington state arts commission for the acquisition of works of art created by Washington state artists.  The works of art may be placed on public lands, integral to or attached to a public building or structure, detached within or outside a public building or structure, part of a portable exhibition or collection, part of a temporary exhibition, or loaned or exhibited in other public facilities.  In addition to the cost of the works of art the one-half of one percent of the appropriation as provided herein shall be used to provide for the administration of the visual arts program by the Washington state arts commission and all costs for installation of the works of art.  For the purpose of this section building shall not include highway construction sheds, warehouses, or other buildings of a temporary nature.

(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to the construction of any facility under the control of the department of corrections and used for the incarceration, treatment, or rehabilitation of convicted persons, or any facility under the control of the department of social and health services and used for juvenile rehabilitation.

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