CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 6587

                    Chapter 45, Laws of 2002

                        57th Legislature

                      2002 Regular Session

EYE BANKS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/13/02

Passed by the Senate February 14, 2002   YEAS 46   NAYS 0                BRAD OWEN President of the Senate Passed by the House March 5, 2002   YEAS 97   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 6587 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

Approved March 14, 2002 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                     March 14, 2002 - 11:28 a.m.

GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                  State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 6587

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             Passed Legislature - 2002 Regular Session

State of Washington   57th Legislature        2002 Regular Session

By Senators Thibaudeau and Deccio; by request of Department of Health

Read first time 01/22/2002.  Referred to Committee on Health & Long‑Term Care.

Repealing state regulation of eye banks. 

    AN ACT Relating to eye banks; and repealing RCW 68.50.630.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  RCW 68.50.630 (Anatomical gifts--Corneal tissue) and 1993 c 228 s 15 are each repealed.

    Passed the Senate February 14, 2002.

    Passed the House March 5, 2002.

Approved by the Governor March 14, 2002.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 14, 2002.