HB 1817 - DIGEST

(SUBSTITUTED FOR - SEE 1ST SUB)

     Provides that funding of the operating budget of the horticultural pest and disease board may be derived from any or all of the following:  (1) Moneys from the county general fund or other general revenues, as appropriated by the board of county commissioners or other county legislative authority;

     (2) a horticultural tax, as authorized in RCW 15.08.260, levied by the county board of commissioners or other county legislative authority; or

     (3) an assessment against all lands, except forest lands used solely for the planting, growing, or harvesting of trees and which are typified, except during a single period of five years following clear-cut logging, by canopies so dense as to prohibit growth of an understory.

     Repeals RCW 15.09.130.