SB 5798-S - DIGEST


(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)


Provides for using television advertising to promote tourism in markets outside of Washington.

Appropriates the sum of one million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars 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 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.

Provides 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 should consider including a television campaign in future tourism promotions.