CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5804

                   Chapter 175, Laws of 1997

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

COMPUTER SOFTWARE PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS AND VALUATION RULES--ELIMINATION OF STUDY

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/27/97

Passed by the Senate March 13, 1997   YEAS 48   NAYS 0               BOB MORTON President of the Senate Passed by the House April 10, 1997   YEAS 98   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Mike O=Connell, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 5804 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 April 23, 1997 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                      April 23, 1997 - 4:45 p.m.

GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 5804

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Senators Finkbeiner and West; by request of Department of Revenue

Read first time 02/13/97.  Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.

Eliminating the requirement for a study of the property tax exemption and valuation rules for computer software.   

    AN ACT Relating to the elimination of the requirement for a study of the property tax exemptions and valuation rules for computer software; and repealing 1991 sp.s. c 29 s 5 (uncodified).

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  1991 sp.s. c 29 s 5 (uncodified) is repealed.

    Passed the Senate March 13, 1997.

    Passed the House April 10, 1997.

Approved by the Governor April 23, 1997.

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