CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6636

                   Chapter 172, Laws of 1996

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

               DEDICATION OF ROADSIDE REST AREAS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/6/96

Passed by the Senate March 4, 1996   YEAS 45   NAYS 0             JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate Passed by the House February 27, 1996   YEAS 98   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6636 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 March 28, 1996 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                      March 28, 1996 - 9:47 a.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6636

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                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

             Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1996 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Bauer, Oke, Owen and Kohl)

Read first time 02/02/96.

Authorizing designation of rest areas as POW/MIA memorials.

    AN ACT Relating to dedication of roadside safety rest areas; and adding a new section to chapter 47.38 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 47.38 RCW to read as follows:

    The transportation commission may designate interstate safety rest areas, as appropriate, as locations for memorial signs to prisoners of war and those missing in action.  The commission shall adopt policies for the placement of memorial signs on interstate safety rest areas and may disapprove any memorial sign that it determines to be inappropriate or inconsistent with the policies.  The policies shall include, but are not limited to, guidelines for the size and location of and inscriptions on memorial signs.  The secretary shall adopt rules for administering this program.  Nonprofit associations may have their name identified on a memorial sign if the association bears the cost of supplying and maintaining the memorial sign.

    Passed the Senate March 4, 1996.

    Passed the House February 27, 1996.

Approved by the Governor March 28, 1996.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 28, 1996.