CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 6465

Chapter 132, Laws of 2004

58th Legislature
2004 Regular Session



DAIRY INSPECTION PROGRAM ASSESSMENT



EFFECTIVE DATE: 6/10/04

Passed by the Senate February 16, 2004
  YEAS 48   NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 2, 2004
  YEAS 95   NAYS 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


 
CERTIFICATE

I, Milton H. Doumit, Jr., Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6465 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

MILTON H. DOUMIT JR.
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Secretary
Approved March 24, 2004.








GARY F. LOCKE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
March 24, 2004 - 3:23 p.m.







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 6465
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Passed Legislature - 2004 Regular Session
State of Washington58th Legislature2004 Regular Session

By Senators Swecker and Rasmussen

Read first time 01/21/2004.   Referred to Committee on Agriculture.



     AN ACT Relating to extending the expiration date of the dairy inspection program assessment; amending RCW 15.36.551; and providing an expiration date.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 15.36.551 and 1999 c 291 s 26 are each amended to read as follows:
     There is levied on all milk processed in this state an assessment not to exceed fifty-four one-hundredths of one cent per hundredweight. The director shall determine, by rule, an assessment, that with contribution from the general fund, will support an inspection program to maintain compliance with the provisions of the pasteurized milk ordinance of the national conference on interstate milk shipment. All assessments shall be levied on the operator of the first milk processing plant receiving the milk for processing. This shall include milk processing plants that produce their own milk for processing and milk processing plants that receive milk from other sources. Milk processing plants whose monthly assessment for receipt of milk totals less than twenty dollars in any given month are exempted from paying this assessment for that month. All moneys collected under this section shall be paid to the director by the twentieth day of the succeeding month for the previous month's assessments. The director shall deposit the funds into the dairy inspection account hereby created within the agricultural local fund established in RCW 43.23.230. The funds shall be used only to provide inspection services to the dairy industry. If the operator of a milk processing plant fails to remit any assessments, that sum shall be a lien on any property owned by him or her, and shall be reported by the director and collected in the manner and with the same priority over other creditors as prescribed for the collection of delinquent taxes under chapters 84.60 and 84.64 RCW.
     This section expires June 30, ((2005)) 2010.


         Passed by the Senate February 16, 2004.
         Passed by the House March 2, 2004.
         Approved by the Governor March 24, 2004.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 24, 2004.