5793 AMH TAYL HATF 121

SB 5793 - H AMD TO AGNR COMM AMD (H-2559.1/17) 435

By Representative Taylor

NOT CONSIDERED 01/05/2018

    On page 1, line 17 of the striking amendment, after "collected" insert ": (a)"

    On page 1, line 19 of the striking amendment, after "16.57.160" insert "; and (b) for the sale of all Washington cattle other than the first point of sale of any calf identified with a green tag as defined in RCW 16.57.160, until the director of the Washington state department of agriculture certifies, through publication in the Washington state register, that the total number of acres of state-owned lands that are available for grazing has increased by a minimum of three hundred thousand acres relative to the number of acres of state-owned lands that are available for grazing as of the effective date of this act"

EFFECT:  Provides that the fifty cent fee increase in the beef check-off fee created in the act does not take effect until the Director of the Washington State Department of Agriculture finds, and certifies through publication in the Washington State Register, that the State of Washington has provided grazing opportunities on an additional 300,000 acres of state-owned land relative to the number of acres of state-owned land that are available for grazing as of the effective date of the act.

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