CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1545

                   Chapter 160, Laws of 1997

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERS--LOCAL FUNDING MATCH REQUIREMENT ELIMINATION

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/27/97

Passed by the House March 12, 1997   Yeas 97   Nays 0              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 10, 1997   Yeas 47   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1545  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

BRAD OWEN President of the Senate

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN                           Chief Clerk

Approved April 23, 1997 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                      April 23, 1997 - 4:15 p.m.

GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 1545

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Representatives Sheahan, Costa, Tokuda, Cooper, Blalock, Keiser, Kenney, Conway, Lantz, Cole, Wolfe, O'Brien, Mason, Wood and Scott

Read first time 01/30/97.  Referred to Committee on Law & Justice.

Regulating funding for domestic violence shelters.  

    AN ACT Relating to funding for domestic violence shelters; and amending RCW 70.123.100.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 70.123.100 and 1979 ex.s. c 245 s 10 are each amended to read as follows:

    ((Fifty percent of the funding for shelters receiving grants under this chapter must be provided by one or more local, municipal, or county source, either public or private.  Contributions in-kind, whether materials, commodities, transportation, office space, other types of facilities, or personal services, may be evaluated and counted as part of the required local funding.))

    The department shall seek, receive, and make use of any funds which may be available from federal or other sources in order to augment state funds appropriated for the purpose of this chapter, and shall make every effort to qualify for federal funding.

    Passed the House March 12, 1997.

    Passed the Senate April 10, 1997.

Approved by the Governor April 23, 1997.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 23, 1997.