FINAL BILL REPORT

                  HB 1300

                         C 101 L 97

                     Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Making technical corrections affecting the department of financial institutions.

Sponsors:  Representatives Sheahan, Appelwick, Hickel and L. Thomas; by request of Statute Law Committee.

House Committee on Law & Justice

Senate Committee on Financial Institutions, Insurance & Housing

Background:  In a given legislative session, two or more bills may amend the same section of the Revised Code of Washington without reference to each other.  This is often called Adouble@ or Amultiple@ amendments.  Usually there are no substantive conflicts between the multiple amendments to a section of the code.  Merging multiple amendments, however,  may require some restructuring of a section for grammatical or other reasons. 

In addition, one bill may amend a section, and another bill may repeal that section.  When both bills pass, the Code Reviser may decodify the section that was repealed and make a note of it in the code. 

The Statute Law Committee reviews the code and recommends legislation to make technical corrections, including reconciling multiple amendments and deleting obsolete references in the code.

Summary:  Technical corrections are made to various sections of the code relating to the Department of Financial Institutions.  The corrections include deleting redundancies and obsolete provisions, reinserting language inadvertently deleted, and correcting inconsistencies.

Votes on Final Passage:

House  97 0

Senate 46 0

Effective:July 27,  1997