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                         SENATE BILL 6254

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

By Senators Wojahn, Winsley, Franklin, Rasmussen, Oke and Goings

Read first time 01/09/96.  Referred to Committee on Health & Long‑Term Care.

Placing property adjacent to Western state hospital in trust.

    AN ACT Relating to charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory real property; creating a new section; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The department of social and health services shall transfer the approximately five hundred seventy-five acres of the greater Western state hospital campus not a part of the central institutional campus to the corpus of the charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institution account.  The transferred property shall be managed pursuant to the principles specified in RCW 79.01.006 and 79.01.007.  The department shall renegotiate any lease provisions that conflict with the transfer or trust land management principles, to the extent not otherwise prohibited by law.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  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 immediately.

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