CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6389

                        57th Legislature

                      2002 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 15, 2002   YEAS 45   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 5, 2002   YEAS 96   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6389 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6389

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             Passed Legislature - 2002 Regular Session

State of Washington   57th Legislature        2002 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Senators Benton, McAuliffe, Hewitt, Swecker, Roach, Morton, Haugen, Long, Stevens, McCaslin, Johnson, Snyder, Honeyford, Sheahan, Rossi, Rasmussen, Eide, Hale and Oke)

READ FIRST TIME 02/07/2002.

Authorizing placement of United States flags on school buses. 

    AN ACT Relating to the ability to place the United States flag on school district buses; and amending RCW 46.61.380.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 46.61.380 and 1995 c 269 s 2501 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) The state superintendent of public instruction shall adopt and enforce rules not inconsistent with the law of this state to govern the design, marking, and mode of operation of all school buses owned and operated by any school district or privately owned and operated under contract or otherwise with any school district in this state for the transportation of school children.  ((Those))

(2) School districts shall not be prohibited from placing or displaying a flag of the United States on a school bus when it does not interfere with the vehicle's safe operation.  The state superintendent of public instruction shall adopt and enforce rules not inconsistent with the law of this state to govern the size, placement, and display of the flag of the United States on all school buses referenced in subsection (1) of this section.

(3) Rules shall by reference be made a part of any such contract or other agreement with the school district.  Every school district, its officers and employees, and every person employed under contract or otherwise by a school district is subject to such rules.  It is unlawful for any officer or employee of any school district or for any person operating any school bus under contract with any school district to violate any of the provisions of such rules.

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