CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1088

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

Passed by the House January 16, 1998  Yeas 89   Nays 0 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 11, 1998   Yeas 34   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1088  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1088

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             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By House Committee on Government Administration (originally sponsored by Representatives Sheahan and Schoesler)

Read first time 02/04/97.

Designating Mammuthus COLUMBI as the official fossil of the state of Washington.   

    AN ACT Relating to the state fossil; adding a new section to chapter 1.20 RCW; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The legislature recognizes that the large, hairy prehistoric elephants of the extinct genus Mammuthus roamed the north American continent, including the Pacific Northwest, during the Pleistocene epoch (Ice Ages).

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 1.20 RCW to read as follows:

    The Columbian mammoth of North America, Mammuthus COLUMBI, is hereby designated as the official fossil of the state of Washington.

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