CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1542

                        57th Legislature

                2001 Regular Legislative Session

Passed by the House March 9, 2001   Yeas 93   Nays 0 Speaker of the House of Representatives Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 6, 2001   Yeas 46   Nays 0	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 HOUSE BILL 1542  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.                           Chief Clerk                           Chief Clerk
President of the Senate

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.	FILED
Governor of the State of Washington	Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 1542

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             Passed Legislature - 2001 Regular Session

State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By Representatives Van Luven, Gombosky, Fromhold and Dunn; by request of Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development

Read first time 01/29/2001.  Referred to Committee on State Government.

Exempting certain financial or proprietary information provided to the department of community, trade, and economic development from public disclosure.

    AN ACT Relating to exempting financial or proprietary information provided to the department of community, trade, and economic development from public disclosure; and amending RCW 42.17.319.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 42.17.319 and 1999 c 150 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 42.17.260 through 42.17.340, the following information supplied to the department of community, trade, and economic development ((by any person in connection with the siting, recruitment, expansion, retention, or relocation of that person's business shall not be made available to the public by the department or the office of the governor)) is exempt from disclosure under this chapter:

    (a) Financial and proprietary information collected from any person and provided to the department of community, trade, and economic development pursuant to RCW 43.330.050(8) and 43.330.080(4); and

(b) Financial or proprietary information((;)) collected from any person and provided to the department or the office of the governor in connection with the siting, recruitment, expansion, retention, or relocation of that person's business and (((b))) until a siting decision is made, identifying information of any person supplying information under this section and the locations being considered for siting, relocation, or expansion of a business.

    (2) Any work product developed by the department based on information as described in subsection (1)(a) of this section is not exempt from disclosure.

(3) For the purposes of this section, "siting decision" means the decision to acquire or not to acquire a site.

    (((3))) (4) If there is no written contact for a period of sixty days to the department from a person connected with siting, recruitment, expansion, retention, or relocation of that person's business, information described in subsection (1)(b) of this section will be available to the public under the provisions of RCW 42.17.250 through 42.17.340.

    (((4))) (5) Nothing in this section shall apply to records of any other state agency or of a local agency.

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