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                          HOUSE BILL 1833

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Representatives Van Luven, Sheldon, Dunn and Kessler; by request of Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development

Read first time 02/11/97.  Referred to Committee on Trade & Economic Development.

Assisting existing economic development revolving loan funds.

    AN ACT Relating to existing economic development revolving loan funds in distressed areas; and amending RCW 43.168.120.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 43.168.120 and 1987 c 461 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) The committee shall develop guidelines for development loan funds to be used to fund existing economic development revolving loan funds.  Consideration shall be given to the selection process for grantees, loan quality criteria, legal and regulatory issues, and ways to minimize duplication between development loan funds and local economic development revolving loan funds.

    (2) ((If it appears that all of the funds appropriated to the development loan fund for a biennium will not be fully granted to local governments within that biennium, the committee may make available up to twenty percent of the eighty percent of the funds available to projects in distressed areas under RCW 43.168.050(9) for grants to local governments to assist existing economic development revolving loan funds in distressed areas.  The grants to local governments shall be utilized to make loans to businesses that meet the specifications for loans under this chapter.  The local governments shall, to the extent permitted under federal law, agree to convey to the development loan fund the principal and interest payments from existing loans that the local governments have made through their revolving loan funds.  Under circumstances where the federal law does not permit the committee to require such transfer, the committee shall give priority to applications where the applicants on their own volition make commitments to provide for the transfer.))  The committee may make available appropriated funds to local governments to recapitalize existing economic development revolving loan funds in distressed areas.

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