CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 5440

 

 

                   Chapter 155, Laws of 2001

 

 

                        57th Legislature

                      2001 Regular Session

 

 

FISH AND WILDLIFE COMMISSION--GUBERNATORIAL APPOINTMENTS

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/22/01

Passed by the Senate March 10, 2001

  YEAS 48   NAYS 0

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 12, 2001

  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  SENATE BILL 5440 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

            TONY M. COOK

                            Secretary

 

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

 

Approved May 2, 2001 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.  

                                FILED          

 

 

             May 2, 2001 - 10:47 a.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                         SENATE BILL 5440

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             Passed Legislature - 2001 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

 

By Senators Jacobsen and Oke; by request of Department of Fish and Wildlife

 

Read first time 01/23/2001.  Referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Parks & Shorelines.

Raising the number of the governor's appointees to the fish and wildlife commission from two to three. 


    AN ACT Relating to correcting the number of gubernatorial appointments to the fish and wildlife commission; and amending RCW 77.04.030.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 77.04.030 and 2000 c 107 s 203 are each amended to read as follows:

    The fish and wildlife commission consists of nine registered voters of the state.  In January of each odd-numbered year, the governor shall appoint with the advice and consent of the senate ((two)) three registered voters to the commission to serve for terms of six years from that January or until their successors are appointed and qualified.  If a vacancy occurs on the commission prior to the expiration of a term, the governor shall appoint a registered voter within sixty days to complete the term.  Three members shall be residents of that portion of the state lying east of the summit of the Cascade mountains, and three shall be residents of that portion of the state lying west of the summit of the Cascade mountains.  Three additional members shall be appointed at-large.  No two members may be residents of the same county.  The legal office of the commission is at the administrative office of the department in Olympia.


    Passed the Senate March 10, 2001.

    Passed the House April 12, 2001.

Approved by the Governor May 2, 2001.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 2, 2001.