HOUSE BILL REPORT

                  HB 1300

                    As Passed Legislature

Title:  An act relating to correcting or removing deficiencies, conflicts, or obsolete provisions affecting the department of financial institutions.

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

Sponsors:  By House Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by  Representatives Sheahan, Appelwick, Hickel and L. Thomas; by request of Statute Law Committee).

Brief History:

Committee Activity:

Law & Justice:  3/5/97 [DP].

Floor Activity:

Passed House:  3/11/97, 97‑0.

Passed Legislature.

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON LAW & JUSTICE

Majority Report:  Do pass.  Signed by 13 members:  Representatives Sheahan, Chairman; McDonald, Vice Chairman; Sterk, Vice Chairman; Costa, Ranking Minority Member; Constantine, Assistant Ranking Minority Member; Carrell; Cody; Kenney; Lambert; Lantz; Radcliff; Sterk and Skinner.

Staff:  Trudes Hutcheson (786-7384).

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.  However, sometimes merging multiple amendments 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  When both bills pass, the Code Reviser may decodify the section which was repealed and make a note of it in the code.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 of Bill:  Technical corrections are made to various sections of the code, deleting redundancies and obsolete provisions, reinserting language inadvertently deleted, and correcting inconsistencies.

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For:  This bill doesn't make any substantive changes to the law.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  Dennis Cooper, Code Reviser (pro).