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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6736

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Natural Resources & Parks (originally sponsored by Senator Oke)

Read first time 02/06/98.

Clarifying provisions which control the composition of the fish and wildlife commission.

    AN ACT Relating to the composition of the fish and wildlife commission; and amending RCW 77.04.030.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 77.04.030 and 1994 c 264 s 52 are each amended to read as follows:

    The fish and wildlife commission consists of nine registered voters of the state.  In January of each odd-numbered year, the governor shall appoint with the advice and consent of the senate two registered voters to the commission to serve for terms of six years from that January or until their successors are appointed and qualified.  If a vacancy occurs on the commission prior to the expiration of a term, the governor shall appoint a registered voter within sixty days to complete the term.  Three members shall be residents of that portion of the state lying east of the summit of the Cascade mountains, and three shall be residents of that portion of the state lying west of the summit of the Cascade mountains.  None of the three eastern commissioners or the three western commissioners may be residents of the same county.  Three additional members shall be appointed at-large effective July 1, 1993; one of whom shall serve a one and one-half year term to end December 31, 1994; one of whom shall serve a three and one-half year term to end December 31, 1996; and one of whom shall serve a five and one-half year term to end December 31, 1998.  At-large commissioners may be residents of any county.  Thereafter all members are to serve a six-year term.  ((No two members may be residents of the same county.))  None of the at-large commissioners may serve in any capacity on the fish and wildlife commission unless confirmed by a majority vote of the senate natural resources and parks committee and the senate as a whole.  The legal office of the commission is at the administrative office of the department in Olympia.

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