CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5355

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate January 26, 1998   YEAS 49   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 6, 1998   YEAS 98   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5355 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

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

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5355

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             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Benton, Brown, Swecker, Finkbeiner, Patterson, Rossi and Winsley)

Read first time 04/07/97.

Exempting certain property donated to charitable organizations. 

    AN ACT Relating to tangible personal property donated to charitable organizations; and amending RCW 82.12.02595.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 82.12.02595 and 1995 c 201 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) This chapter ((shall)) does not apply to the use by a nonprofit charitable organization or state or local governmental entity of any item of tangible personal property that has been donated to the nonprofit charitable organization or state or local governmental entity, or to the subsequent use of the property by a person to whom the property is donated or bailed in furtherance of the purpose for which the property was originally donated.

(2) This chapter does not apply to the donation of tangible personal property without intervening use to a nonprofit charitable organization, or to the incorporation of tangible personal property without intervening use into real or personal property of or for a nonprofit charitable organization in the course of installing, repairing, cleaning, altering, imprinting, improving, constructing, or decorating the real or personal property for no charge.

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