SENATE BILL REPORT

                  ESB 6696

              As Passed Senate, February 14, 2000

Title:  An act relating to correcting obsolete references to the department of community, trade, and economic development.

Brief Description:  Correcting obsolete references to the department of community, trade, and economic development.

Sponsors:  Senator Patterson; by request of Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development.

Brief History:

Committee Activity:  State & Local Government:  1/31/2000, 2/2/2000 [DP].

Passed Senate, 2/14/2000, 37-8.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON STATE & LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Majority Report:  Do pass.

  Signed by Senators Patterson, Chair; Gardner, Vice Chair; Haugen and Horn.

Staff:  Eugene Green (786-7405)

Background:  Another bill introduced this session (SB 6396) divides the Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development into the Department of Community Development and the Department of Trade and Economic Development.  Existing references throughout the statutes reference the existing Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development.

Summary of Bill:  Existing references to the Department of Community, Trade, and Economic  Development are corrected to reflect the proposed division of the department.

The following references or programs are decodified or repealed:  obsolete references on child care and residential care facilities; Clean Washington Center; Investment Opportunities Office; Washington State Development Loan Fund Committee.

The statute is corrected to reflect that the Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation has responsibility for discovery, cataloguing, and study of the state=s archeology resources.

The bill is null and void if SB 6396 does not pass (splits the agency into two agencies).

Appropriation:   None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For:  It is simply a Aclean-up@ bill, a companion to the bill that splits the agency (SB 6396).  It is null and void if SB 6396 does not pass.

Testimony Against:  None.

Testified:  Jean Ameluxen, CTED (pro).