CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5237

 

 

Chapter 16, Laws of 2001

 

 

57th Legislature

2001 Second Special Session

 

 

FAIR FUND

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  9/20/01

Passed by the Senate June 6, 2001

  YEAS 43   NAYS 0

 

 

 

BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House June 19, 2001

  YEAS 85   NAYS 0

 

 

 

CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

 

CERTIFICATE

 

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5237 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

TONY M. COOK

Secretary

 

 

 

 

Approved July 13, 2001

 

 

 

 

 

GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

 

 

FILED

 

July 13, 2001 ‑ 3:07 p.m.

 

 

 

 

Secretary of State

State of Washington

 


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               ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5237

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Passed Legislature ‑ 2001 Second Special Session

 

State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

 

   By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Rasmussen, Swecker, Sheahan, Honeyford, West, Fraser, Kastama, Regala, Hewitt, Hale, Parlette, Morton, Hochstatter and Franklin)

 

READ FIRST TIME 03/26/01. 


    AN ACT Relating to the fair fund; amending RCW 15.76.115; and making an appropriation.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 15.76.115 and 1998 c 345 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    The fair fund is created in the custody of the state treasury.  All moneys received by the department of agriculture for the purposes of this fund and from RCW 67.16.105(4) shall be deposited into the fund.  At the beginning of fiscal year 2002 and each fiscal year thereafter, the state treasurer shall transfer into the fair fund from the general fund the sum of two million dollars.  Expenditures from the fund may be used only for assisting fairs in the manner provided in this chapter.  Only the director of agriculture or the director's designee may authorize expenditures from the fund.  The fund is subject to allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW, but no appropriation is required for expenditures.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  The sum of one hundred thousand dollars is appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002, from the general fund to the fair fund to be used for special assistance as provided for in RCW 15.76.150.


    Passed the Senate June 6, 2001.


    Passed the House June 19, 2001.

Approved by the Governor July 13, 2001.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State July 13, 2001.