CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2471

Chapter 252, Laws of 2006

59th Legislature
2006 Regular Session



VETERAN HOMEOWNERSHIP DOWNPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM



EFFECTIVE DATE: 6/7/06

Passed by the House March 4, 2006
  Yeas 97   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate February 28, 2006
  Yeas 49   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 2471 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 March 27, 2006.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
March 27, 2006 - 3:27 p.m.







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2471
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

Passed Legislature - 2006 Regular Session
State of Washington59th Legislature2006 Regular Session

By House Committee on Housing (originally sponsored by Representatives McCune, Miloscia, Dunn, Campbell, Linville, Morrell, Strow, O'Brien, Green, Sells, Chase and Holmquist)

READ FIRST TIME 2/3/06.   



     AN ACT Relating to creating a veteran homeownership program; reenacting and amending RCW 41.04.007; and adding a new section to chapter 43.180 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 43.180 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) By January 1, 2007, the Washington state housing finance commission shall create and implement a veteran homeownership downpayment assistance program to work in conjunction with the commission's housing finance programs. The program will assist the following individuals purchase a home:
     (a) Washington state residents who are veterans, as defined by RCW 41.04.007;
     (b) Members and former members of the Washington national guard and reserve; and
     (c) Never remarried spouses and dependent children of deceased veterans, as defined by RCW 41.04.007.
     (2) The commission shall adopt rules providing procedures to assure that the downpayment assistance program is available for qualified veterans in a fair and equitable manner.

Sec. 2   RCW 41.04.007 and 2005 c 251 s 1 and 2005 c 216 s 7 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
     "Veteran" includes every person, who at the time he or she seeks the benefits of RCW 46.16.30920, 72.36.030, 41.04.010, 73.04.090, 73.04.110, 73.08.010, 73.08.060, 73.08.070, ((or)) 73.08.080, or section 1 of this act has received an honorable discharge or received a discharge for medical reasons with an honorable record, where applicable, and who has served in at least one of the following capacities:
     (1) As a member in any branch of the armed forces of the United States, including the national guard and armed forces reserves, and has fulfilled his or her initial military service obligation;
     (2) As a member of the women's air forces service pilots;
     (3) As a member of the armed forces reserves, national guard, or coast guard, and has been called into federal service by a presidential select reserve call up for at least one hundred eighty cumulative days;
     (4) As a civil service crewmember with service aboard a U.S. army transport service or U.S. naval transportation service vessel in oceangoing service from December 7, 1941, through December 31, 1946;
     (5) As a member of the Philippine armed forces/scouts during the period of armed conflict from December 7, 1941, through August 15, 1945; or
     (6) A United States documented merchant mariner with service aboard an oceangoing vessel operated by the department of defense, or its agents, from both June 25, 1950, through July 27, 1953, in Korean territorial waters and from August 5, 1964, through May 7, 1975, in Vietnam territorial waters, and who received a military commendation.


         Passed by the House March 4, 2006.
         Passed by the Senate February 28, 2006.
         Approved by the Governor March 27, 2006.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 27, 2006.