CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5354

                   Chapter 279, Laws of 1997

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

STATE CAPITOL COMMITTEE--MEMBERSHIP

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/27/97

Passed by the Senate March 18, 1997   YEAS 47   NAYS 1               BOB MORTON President of the Senate Passed by the House April 25, 1997   YEAS 87   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5354 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives

MIKE O'CONNELL                             Secretary

Approved May 7, 1997 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                         May 7, 1997 - 1:53 p.m.

GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5354

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Senators Benton, Anderson, Rossi and Rasmussen

Read first time 01/24/97.  Referred to Committee on Government Operations.

Removing the commissioner of public lands and adding the secretary of state to the membership of the capitol committee.  

    AN ACT Relating to the capitol committee; and amending RCW 43.34.010 and 43.34.015.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 43.34.010 and 1979 ex.s. c 57 s 10 are each amended to read as follows:

    The governor or the governor's designee, the lieutenant governor, the secretary of state, and the commissioner of public lands, ex officio, shall constitute the state capitol committee.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 43.34.015 and 1965 c 8 s 43.34.015 are each amended to read as follows:

    The commissioner of public lands shall be the secretary of the state capitol committee, but the committee may appoint a suitable person as acting secretary thereof, and fix his or her compensation((:  PROVIDED, That)).  However, all records of the committee shall be filed in the office of the commissioner of public lands.

    Passed the Senate March 18, 1997.

    Passed the House April 25, 1997.

Approved by the Governor May 7, 1997.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 7, 1997.