CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 1137

Chapter 233, Laws of 2007

60th Legislature
2007 Regular Session



WATER QUALITY CAPITAL ACCOUNT



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/01/07

Passed by the House March 7, 2007
  Yeas 95   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate April 11, 2007
  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 HOUSE BILL 1137 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 30, 2007, 2:04 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
April 30, 2007







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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HOUSE BILL 1137
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Passed Legislature - 2007 Regular Session
State of Washington60th Legislature2007 Regular Session

By Representatives Fromhold, McDonald, Ormsby, Moeller and Haler; by request of Office of Financial Management

Read first time 01/11/2007.   Referred to Committee on Capital Budget.



     AN ACT Relating to creating the water quality capital account; adding a new section to chapter 70.146 RCW; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 70.146 RCW to read as follows:
     (1) The water quality capital account is created in the state treasury. Moneys in the water quality capital account may be spent only after appropriation.
     (2) Expenditures from the water quality capital account may only be used: (a) To make grants or loans to public bodies, including grants to public bodies as cost-sharing moneys in any case where federal, local, or other moneys are made available on a cost-sharing basis, for the capital component of water pollution control facilities and activities; (b) for purposes of assisting a public body to obtain an ownership interest in water pollution control facilities; or (c) to defray any part of the capital component of the payments made by a public body to a service provider under a service agreement entered into under RCW 70.150.060.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect July 1, 2007.


         Passed by the House March 7, 2007.
         Passed by the Senate April 11, 2007.
         Approved by the Governor April 30, 2007.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 30, 2007.