CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5622

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate March 9, 1998   YEAS 45   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  SENATE BILL 5622 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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                         SENATE BILL 5622

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                      AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Senators Long, Strannigan and Winsley

Read first time 02/04/97.  Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.

Removing the expiration of tax exemptions for new construction of alternative housing for youth in crisis.  

    AN ACT Relating to tax exemptions for new construction of alternative housing for youth in crisis; amending RCW 82.08.02915 and 82.12.02915.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 82.08.02915 and 1997 c 386 s 56 are each amended to read as follows:

    The tax levied by RCW 82.08.020 shall not apply to sales to health or social welfare organizations, as defined in RCW 82.04.431, of items necessary for new construction of alternative housing for youth in crisis, so long as the facility will be a licensed agency under chapter 74.15 RCW, upon completion.  ((This section shall expire July 1, 1999.))

    Sec. 2.  RCW 82.12.02915 and 1997 c 386 s 57 are each amended to read as follows:    The provisions of this chapter shall not apply in respect to the use of any item acquired by a health or social welfare organization, as defined in RCW 82.04.431, of items necessary for new construction of alternative housing for youth in crisis, so long as the facility will be a licensed agency under chapter 74.15 RCW, upon completion.  ((This section shall expire July 1, 1999.))

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