5468 AMH CLEM HIRS 1

SB 5468 - H AMD TO H COMM AMD (5468 AMH AGEC H3093.1)510

By Representative Clements

     On page 3, after line 26 of the committee amendment, insert the following:

ANEW SECTION. Sec. 6.  The apiary advisory committee established under RCW 15.60.010 shall, in consultation with the director of agriculture, examine means of offsetting the reduction in revenues to the industry apiary program account resulting from the amendments to RCW 15.60.040 made by section 5 of this act by providing alternative revenues to the account from sources within the apiary industry.  Any recommendation of the committee shall be made to the house agriculture and ecology committee and the senate agriculture and environment committee by December 1, 1997, in the form of legislation providing such offsetting revenues.  Any alternative source or sources of revenues included in such a recommendation shall be exclusively from sources within the apiary industry and shall not be in the form of state fees imposed upon other segments of the agricultural community.@

EFFECT: Requires the Apiary Advisory Committee to examine means of replacing the revenues reduced by repealing the pollination service fee.  Any recommendation of the committee is to be made by December 1, 1997, in the form of legislation.  The replacement must be from sources within the apiary industry and cannot be from state fees imposed upon other segments of the agricultural community.