CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 6400

                   Chapter 159, Laws of 1998

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

WASHINGTON TELEPHONE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM EXTENSION

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/11/98

Passed by the Senate February 12, 1998   YEAS 47   NAYS 0                BRAD OWEN President of the Senate Passed by the House March 6, 1998   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 6400 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 March 25, 1998 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                      March 25, 1998 - 4:45 p.m.

GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 6400

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             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Senators Brown, Finkbeiner, Oke and Thibaudeau; by request of Department of Social and Health Services

Read first time 01/16/98.  Referred to Committee on Energy & Utilities.

Extending the Washington telephone assistance program through 2003. 

    AN ACT Relating to extending the Washington telephone assistance program; and amending 1993 c 249 s 3 (uncodified).

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

    Sec. 1.  1993 c 249 s 3 (uncodified) is amended to read as follows:

    RCW 80.36.410 through 80.36.470 shall expire June 30, ((1998, unless extended by the legislature)) 2003.

    Passed the Senate February 12, 1998.

    Passed the House March 6, 1998.

Approved by the Governor March 25, 1998.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 25, 1998.