CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1088
Chapter
129, Laws of 1998
55th
Legislature
1998
Regular Session
STATE FOSSIL
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 6/11/98
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Passed by the House January 16, 1998 Yeas 89 Nays 0
 CLYDE BALLARD
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate March 11, 1998
Yeas 34 Nays 0
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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.
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BRAD OWEN
President of the Senate
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 TIMOTHY A. MARTIN
Chief Clerk
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Approved March 25, 1998 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
March 25, 1998 - 4:15 p.m.
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GARY LOCKE
Governor of the State of Washington
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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
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.
Passed the House January 16, 1998.
Passed the Senate March 11, 1998.
Approved by the Governor
March 25, 1998.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State March 25, 1998.