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SENATE BILL 5562
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995 Regular Session
By Senators Roach, Gaspard, Kohl, Heavey, Schow, Hargrove, Oke, Snyder, Owen, Deccio, Strannigan, Finkbeiner, Rasmussen, Moyer, Franklin, Johnson, Morton, Wood, Swecker, Long, Winsley, Cantu, Palmer, McDonald, A. Anderson, Sellar and Bauer
Read first time 01/26/95. Referred to Committee on Government Operations.
AN ACT Relating to veterans' memorials; adding new sections to chapter 73.40 RCW; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that, on the capitol campus, participants in every major war in which United States armed forces have been engaged have been honored by the erection of a war memorial, with the exception of the Second World War. In the year that marks the fiftieth anniversary of our nation's victorious conclusion of World War II, the legislature seeks to insure that the efforts of the men and women who fought and worked so hard to preserve this country will be remembered with a monument to their bravery and sacrifice.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 73.40 RCW to read as follows:
The director of the department of veterans affairs shall coordinate with the capitol campus design advisory committee and the capitol committee, for the redesign, construction, and rededication of the flag plaza in the north oval of the legislative building. The necessary benches, plaques, insignias, and messages will be incorporated into low structures around and on the flag plaza in such a way as to create a memorial to those Washington state residents who served or died in World War II.
The memorial shall be designed to compliment the flag plaza and ensure continued access and display of the territorial time capsule buried in the sidewalk. The capitol campus design advisory committee, and the state capitol committee will approve the final flag plaza design. It is the intent of the legislature that this memorial be a fitting tribute to those who served during World War II while at the same time enhancing the capitol grounds, the legislative building, and the temple of justice.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. A new section is added to chapter 73.40 RCW to read as follows:
The director of the department of veterans affairs or the director's designee shall chair an advisory committee composed of five members to include the director of the department of veterans affairs or the director's designee, the secretary of state or the secretary's designee, the director of the department of general administration or the director's designee, and two members who are representatives of state veterans organizations and who served in World War II, one member appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, and one member appointed by the president of the senate. This committee shall coordinate the redesign of the flag plaza, and the placement of plaques, symbols, inscriptions, and statuary and other items commemorating the war effort. The committee shall conduct a private fund-raising effort to carry out the purposes of this section and section 2 of this act. The department of veterans affairs is authorized to act as financial agent managing the collection and dispersal of these private nonappropriated funds.
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