CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
ENGROSSED
HOUSE BILL 2302
Chapter
65, Laws of 1998
55th
Legislature
1998
Regular Session
POWERS OF COUNTIES REGARDING
MONEYS HELD IN TRUST FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 6/11/98
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Passed by the House January 26, 1998 Yeas 97 Nays 0
 CLYDE BALLARD
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Passed by the Senate March 4, 1998
Yeas 49 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 HOUSE BILL
2302 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 20, 1998 Place Style On
Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
March 20, 1998 - 4:49 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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ENGROSSED
HOUSE BILL 2302
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Passed
Legislature - 1998 Regular Session
State
of Washington 55th Legislature 1998 Regular Session
By
Prefiled
12/24/97. Read first time 01/12/98. Referred to Committee on Government
Administration.
Authorizing counties that hold money in trust for school
purposes to distribute the money to school districts.
AN
ACT Relating to moneys held by a county in trust for school districts; adding a
new section to chapter 36.01 RCW; and repealing an act for the protection of
the Joshua Brown school fund on pages 219 through 223, Laws of 1875.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 1. A
new section is added to chapter 36.01 RCW to read as follows:
Any
county authorized by territorial law to administer moneys held in trust for the
benefit of school districts within the county, which moneys were bequeathed for
such purposes by testamentary provision, may dissolve any trust, the corpus of
which does not exceed fifty thousand dollars, and distribute any moneys
remaining in the trust to school districts within the county. Before
dissolving the trust, the county must adopt a resolution finding that
conditions have changed and it is no longer feasible for the county to
administer the trust.
NEW
SECTION. Sec. 2. An
act for the protection of the Joshua Brown school fund, pages 219 through 223,
Laws of 1875, are each repealed.
Passed the House January 26, 1998.
Passed the Senate March 4, 1998.
Approved by the Governor
March 20, 1998.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State March 20, 1998.