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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1083

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Representative J. Williams

Read first time 2/25/87 and referred to Committee on Energy & Utilities.

AN ACT Relating to energy conservation; creating new sections; and making an appropriation.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     The legislature finds and declares that to promote the efficient and cost-effective use of energy in accordance with the state energy conservation program, the University of Washington college of architecture, department of mechanical engineering, and department of environmental health science shall continue to conduct in situ testing of the annual thermal transmittance of individual construction components together with their collateral health effects.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     There is created in the state treasury an account into which shall be deposited the money distributed to the state pursuant to Exxon v. United States, 561 F. Supp 816 (1983), affirmed 773 F. 2d 1240 (1985), or any other oil overcharge settlements or judgments distributed by the federal government.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     Three million five hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated to the University of Washington from the account created by section 2 of this act, for the biennium ending June 30, 1989, for the purposes of this act.