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SENATE
BILL 5659
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AS
AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
Passed
Legislature - 1997 Regular Session
State of Washington 55th
Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/05/97.
Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Environment.
Regulating
the beef commission.
AN
ACT Relating to the beef commission; and amending RCW 16.67.040 and 16.67.051.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
16.67.040 and 1993 c 40 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
There
is hereby created a Washington state beef commission to be thus known and
designated. The commission shall be composed of ((one)) two beef
producers, ((one)) two dairy (beef) producers, ((one))
two feeders, one livestock salesyard operator, and one meat
packer. If an otherwise voting member is elected as the chair of the
commission, the member may, during the member=s term as chair of the commission, cast a vote
as a member of the commission only to break a tie vote. In
addition there will be one ex officio member without the right to vote from the
department of agriculture to be designated by the director thereof.
A
majority of voting members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any
business.
All
appointed members as stated in RCW 16.67.060 shall be citizens and residents of
this state, over the age of twenty-five years, each of whom is and has been
actually engaged in that phase of the cattle industry he or she represents for
a period of five years, and has during that period derived a substantial
portion of his or her income therefrom, or have a substantial investment in
cattle as an owner, lessee, partner, or a stockholder owning at least ten
percent of the voting stock in a corporation engaged in the production of cattle
or dressed beef, or a manager or executive officer of such corporation.
Producer members of the commission shall not be directly engaged in the
business of being a meat packer, or as a feeder, feeding cattle other than
their own. Said qualifications must continue throughout each member's term of
office.
Sec.
2. RCW
16.67.051 and 1993 c 40 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
Commencing
on July 1, 1993, the appointive positions on the commission shall be designated
as follows: The beef producers shall be designated position one and
position six; the dairy (beef) producers shall be designated
position two and position seven; the feeders shall be designated
position three and position eight; the livestock salesyard operator
shall be designated position four; and the meat packer shall be designated
position five.
The initial terms of positions one and four shall terminate July 1,
1994; positions two and five shall terminate July 1, 1995; and position three
shall terminate July 1, 1996. The initial terms of position six shall
terminate July 1, 1998; position seven shall terminate July 1, 1999; and
position eight shall terminate July 1, 2000. The regular term of office of
subsequent appointees shall be three years from the date of appointment and
until their successors are appointed.
