CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2628

                    Chapter 97, Laws of 2000

                        56th Legislature

                      2000 Regular Session

COLOSTRUM MILK

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/8/00

Passed by the House February 8, 2000   Yeas 85   Nays 12              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the House of Representatives               FRANK CHOPP Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 3, 2000   Yeas 43   Nays 1

CERTIFICATE We, Timothy A. Martin and Cynthia Zehnder, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2628 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.            CYNTHIA ZEHNDER                           Chief Clerk           TIMOTHY A. MARTIN                           Chief Clerk

BRAD OWEN President of the Senate

Approved March 24, 2000 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.	FILED                            March 24, 2000 - 2:48 p.m.
GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington	Secretary of State                  State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2628

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             Passed Legislature - 2000 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By House Committee on Agriculture & Ecology (originally sponsored by Representatives Linville and G. Chandler)

Read first time 02/01/2000.  Referred to Committee on .

Modifying prohibitions on colostrum milk.   

    AN ACT Relating to colostrum milk; and amending RCW 15.36.151.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 15.36.151 and 1999 c 291 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:

    It is unlawful to sell, offer for sale, or deliver:

    (1) Milk or products produced from milk from cows, goats, or other mammals affected with disease or of which the owner thereof has refused official examination and tests for disease; or

    (2) Colostrum milk for consumption by humans, except that this prohibition regarding colostrum milk does not apply to:

(a) Colostrum milk ((from cows that have been tested for brucellosis within sixty days of parturition may)) made or to be made available to persons having multiple sclerosis, or other persons acting on their behalf, who, at the time of the initial sale, present a form, signed by a licensed physician, certifying that the intended user has multiple sclerosis and that the user releases the provider of the milk from liability resulting from the consumption of the milk((.  Colostrum milk provided under this section is exempt from meeting the standards for grade A raw milk required by this chapter)); or

(b) Colostrum milk processed or to be processed by a licensed food processing facility or a milk processing plant as a nutritional supplement in accordance with the federal dietary supplement health and education act.  Colostrum milk used for this purpose must be pasteurized or otherwise subjected to a heat process or other treatment sufficient to kill harmful organisms.

Colostrum milk described in subsection (2)(a) or (b) of this section is exempt from the prohibition provided by subsection (2) of this section if it comes from a licensed producer.  Such colostrum milk is also exempt from meeting the standards for grade A raw milk required by this chapter.

    Passed the House February 8, 2000.

    Passed the Senate March 3, 2000.

Approved by the Governor March 24, 2000.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 24, 2000.