HB 1588 - DIGEST

(SEE ALSO PROPOSED 1ST SUB)

Provides for using television advertising to promote tourism in Washington.

Appropriates the sum of one million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, from the general fund to the department of community, trade, and economic development for the purposes of this act.

Appropriates the sum of one million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, from the general fund to the department of community, trade, and economic development for the purposes of this act.

Declares that if there is no appropriation in the 2005-06 operating budget for the purposes of this act, the department of community, trade, and economic development must spend three million five hundred thousand dollars of existing funds or thirty-three percent of its total tourism budget, whichever is greater, for the purposes of this act.