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SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1671
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Passed
Legislature - 1995 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th
Legislature 1995 Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/22/95.
Revising commodity
commission assessment authority.
AN ACT
Relating to agricultural commodity commissions; adding a new section to chapter
15.65 RCW; adding a new section to chapter 15.26 RCW; providing an effective
date; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 1. A new
section is added to chapter 15.65 RCW to read as follows:
The
hop commodity board may raise the rate of annual assessment in excess of the
fiscal growth factor under chapter 43.135 RCW from the assessment of two
dollars and fifty cents per affected unit in effect under chapter 16-532 WAC on
the effective date of this act to three dollars per affected unit. For this
purpose, the affected unit is two hundred pounds net of hops or the amount of
lupulin, extract, or oil produced from two hundred pounds net of hops.
The
mint commodity board may raise the rate of annual assessment in excess of the
fiscal growth factor under chapter 43.135 RCW from the assessment of three and
one-half cents per affected unit in effect under chapter 16-540 WAC on the
effective date of this act to five cents per affected unit. For this purpose,
the affected unit is one pound of mint oil as distilled from mint plants grown
by an affected producer and as weighed by the first purchaser.
The
assessment limits established by this section are set solely to provide prior
legislative authority for the purposes of RCW 43.135.055 and may not be
construed as providing a limitation on the authority of either commodity board
to alter assessments in any manner not limited by RCW 43.135.055. However, any
alteration in assessments made under the authority of this section shall be
made in compliance with the procedural requirements established by this chapter
for altering or amending such assessments.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 2. A new
section is added to chapter 15.26 RCW to read as follows:
The
Washington tree fruit research commission may raise the assessment on cherries
in excess of the fiscal growth factor under chapter 43.135 RCW from the
assessment of two dollars per ton in effect under chapter 16-560 WAC on the
effective date of this act to four dollars per ton. The commission may also establish
an additional assessment on all tree fruits under RCW 15.26.155 of not more
than eight cents per ton.
The
assessment limits established by this section are set solely to provide prior
legislative authority for the purposes of RCW 43.135.055 and may not be
construed as providing a limitation on the authority of the tree fruit research
commission to alter assessments in any manner not limited by RCW 43.135.055.
However, any alteration in assessments made under the authority of this section
shall be made in compliance with the procedural requirements established by
this chapter for altering or amending such assessments.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. This act
is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or
safety, or support of the state government and its existing public
institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1995.
