BILL REQ. #:  H-4275.1 

Read first time 01/27/2004.   Referred to Committee on Trade & Economic Development.

     AN ACT Relating to the joint legislative oversight committee on trade policy; amending RCW 44.55.020; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 44.55.020 and 2003 c 404 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
     A joint legislative oversight committee on trade policy is created, to consist of four senators and four representatives from the legislature and three ex officio members. The president of the senate shall appoint the senate members of the committee, and the speaker of the house shall appoint the house members of the committee. No more than two members from each house may be from the same political party. A list of appointees must be submitted by July 1, 2003, and before the close of each regular session during an even-numbered year. Vacancies on the committee will be filled by appointment and must be filled from the same political party and from the same house as the member whose seat was vacated. The ex officio members shall be appointed by the ((speaker of the house and the president of the senate)) governor, and include a representative from the department of agriculture, the state trade representative, and a representative from the office of the attorney general.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect April 1, 2004.