CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1461

Chapter 30, Laws of 2005

59th Legislature
2005 Regular Session



CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE REVOLVING ACCOUNT



EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/24/05

Passed by the House March 10, 2005
  Yeas 94   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate April 4, 2005
  Yeas 46   Nays 0


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Richard Nafziger, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1461 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


RICHARD NAFZIGER
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Chief Clerk
Approved April 13, 2005.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
April 13, 2005 - 3:13 p.m.







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1461
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Passed Legislature - 2005 Regular Session
State of Washington59th Legislature2005 Regular Session

By House Committee on Economic Development, Agriculture & Trade (originally sponsored by Representatives Linville, Buri and Pettigrew; by request of Conservation Commission)

READ FIRST TIME 02/15/05.   



     AN ACT Relating to the conservation assistance revolving account; and amending RCW 89.08.550.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 89.08.550 and 2004 c 277 s 901 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) The conservation assistance revolving account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. ((The account shall be administered by the conservation commission.)) Moneys from the account may only be spent after appropriation. Moneys placed in the account shall include principal and interest from the repayment of any loans granted under this section, and any other moneys appropriated to the account by the legislature. ((Expenditures from the account may be used to make loans to landowners for projects enrolled in the conservation reserve enhancement program.)) Expenditures from the account may be used only to make loans to landowners for projects enrolled in the conservation reserve enhancement program and the continuous conservation reserve program.
     (2) In order to aid the financing of conservation reserve enhancement program projects and continuous conservation reserve program projects, the conservation commission, through the conservation districts, may make interest-free loans to ((conservation reserve enhancement program)) these enrollees from the conservation assistance revolving account. The conservation commission may require such terms and conditions as it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. Loans to landowners shall be for costs associated with the installation of conservation improvements eligible for and secured by federal farm service agency practice incentive payment reimbursement. Loans under this program promote critical habitat protection and restoration by bridging the financing gap between project implementation and federal funding. The conservation commission shall give loan preferences to those projects expected to generate the greatest environmental benefits and that occur in basins with critical or depressed salmonid stocks. Money received from landowners in loan repayments made under this section shall be paid into the conservation assistance revolving account for uses consistent with this section.


         Passed by the House March 10, 2005.
         Passed by the Senate April 4, 2005.
         Approved by the Governor April 13, 2005.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 13, 2005.