CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 5355

 

                    Chapter 78, Laws of 1995

 

 

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

 

 

            Claims for damages caused by deer or elk

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/23/95

Passed by the Senate March 7, 1995

  YEAS 47   NAYS 0

 

 

 

JOEL PRITCHARD

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 6, 1995

  YEAS 87   NAYS 8

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5355 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

  CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

MARTY BROWN

                            Secretary

 

 

Approved April 18, 1995 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                FILED          

 

 

           April 18, 1995 - 1:07 p.m.

 

 

 

    MIKE LOWRY

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                         SENATE BILL 5355

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             Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

 

By Senators Drew, Morton and Rasmussen

 

Read first time 01/20/95.  Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.

 

Providing for payment of claims for damages caused by deer or elk.



    AN ACT Relating to claims for damages caused by deer or elk; creating new sections; and providing an expiration date.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  Claims exceeding two thousand dollars that have been filed pursuant to RCW 77.12.280(1) and that have been submitted to the legislature pursuant to RCW 4.92.040(5) may be paid as submitted by the risk management office.  Payment shall be made by the department from moneys appropriated for that purpose.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  The house of representatives and the senate committees on natural resources, together with the department of fish and wildlife, shall study the issue of damages caused by wildlife and develop long-term policy proposals regarding state compensation to be made for such damages.  These proposals shall be submitted by December 1, 1995.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  This act shall expire on January 1, 1996.


    Passed the Senate March 7, 1995.

    Passed the House April 6, 1995.

Approved by the Governor April 18, 1995.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 18, 1995.


 


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