CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1485

 

 

                   Chapter 205, Laws of 1999

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

 

WHIDBEY ISLAND GAME FARM

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  5/7/99

Passed by the House March 9, 1999

  Yeas 97   Nays 0

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate April 12, 1999

  Yeas 44   Nays 1

             CERTIFICATE

 

We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1485  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

           DEAN R. FOSTER

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

 

 

Approved May 7, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.          

                                FILED                

 

              May 7, 1999 - 3:46 p.m.

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1485

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Capital Budget (originally sponsored by Representatives Barlean and Anderson)

 

Read first time 02/25/1999.

  Selling the Whidbey Island game farm.  


    AN ACT Relating to the Whidbey Island game farm; adding a new section to chapter 77.12 RCW; creating a new section; and declaring an emergency.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 77.12 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) The department shall endeavor to sell the property known as Whidbey Island game farm, Island county.

    (2) If the sale takes place one year or less from the effective date of this section, the property may be sold only to a nonprofit corporation, a consortium of nonprofit corporations, or a municipal corporation that intends to preserve, to the extent practicable, the property for purposes of undeveloped open space and historical preservation.

    (3) If the sale takes place more than one year after the effective date of this section, the conditions in subsection (2) of this section do not apply.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  If the department of fish and wildlife has not sold the property known as Whidbey Island game farm, Island county, by June 30, 1999, then the treasurer shall lend six hundred ninety-four thousand dollars from the state general fund to the wildlife account.  The department shall repay the loan by June 30, 2001, or when the department sells the property, whichever occurs earlier.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately.


    Passed the House March 9, 1999.

    Passed the Senate April 12, 1999.

Approved by the Governor May 7, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 7, 1999.