BILL REQ. #:  Z-0367.1 

Read first time 02/02/2005.   Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.

     AN ACT Relating to capital facilities at the Rainier school; amending RCW 72.01.140; and repealing RCW 28B.30.820 and 72.01.142.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 72.01.140 and 1981 c 238 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     The secretary shall:
     (1) Make a survey, investigation, and classification of the lands connected with the state institutions under his control, and determine which thereof are of such character as to be most profitably used for agricultural, horticultural, dairying, and stock raising purposes, taking into consideration the costs of making them ready for cultivation, the character of the soil, its depth and fertility, the number of kinds of crops to which it is adapted, the local climatic conditions, the local annual rainfall, the water supply upon the land or available, the needs of all state institutions for the food products that can be grown or produced, and the amount and character of the available labor of inmates at the several institutions;
     (2) Establish and carry on suitable farming operations at the several institutions under his control;
     (3) Supply the several institutions with the necessary food products produced thereat;
     (4) Exchange with, or furnish to, other institutions, food products at the cost of production;
     (5) Sell and dispose of surplus food products produced.
     ((This section shall not apply to the Rainier school for which cognizance of farming operations has been transferred to Washington State University by RCW 72.01.142.))

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:
     (1) RCW 28B.30.820 (Dairy/forage and agricultural research facility -- Transfer of property and facilities for) and 1981 c 238 s 3; and
     (2) RCW 72.01.142 (Transfer of dairy operation from Rainier school) and 1981 c 238 s 2.