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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 1389
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
C 238 L 88
State of Washington 50th Legislature 1988 Regular Session
By House Committee on Ways & Means/Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Nutley, J. Williams, Leonard, Sanders, Wineberry, Heavey, Anderson, Jacobsen, Valle, Nelson, Todd, Lux, Unsoeld and Ferguson)
Read first time 2/8/88.
AN ACT Relating to the federal emergency management agency's emergency food and shelter program; creating new sections; making an appropriation; and providing an expiration date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that the federal emergency management agency's emergency food and shelter program assists poor and needy persons in the state of Washington by distributing funds to local public and private organizations for the purpose of delivering emergency food and shelter to those persons. The legislature finds that there exists an annual gap of approximately five months beginning with the federal fiscal year in October. This gap is the period of time between when the grants are approved and when the funds are actually distributed, and occurs during the winter months when the need is greatest.
The legislature also finds that the state of Washington can assist the poor and needy with little risk to state funds by lending funds to fill this gap and being repaid when the federal funds are distributed.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this act.
(1) "Department" means the department of community development.
(2) "Recipient" means a county, city, town, administrative organization, or local public agency or board that accounts for or distributes funds for the emergency food and shelter program.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. Subject to legislative appropriation, the department shall make loans to recipients for the purpose of providing food and shelter to the poor and needy. The recipient shall be approved to receive grants or moneys under the federal emergency management agency's emergency food and shelter program prior to the department making the loan to the recipient. There shall be no interest required of recipients of loans. The loan from the department to the recipient shall be repaid to the department from the federal grant or moneys within ten days of the receipt by the recipient of the federal grant or moneys. Moneys repaid under this section shall be deposited in the general fund. In making the loans, the department shall consider, but is not limited to consideration of, the following:
(1) The stability of the recipient and the recipient's ability to repay the loan to the department; and
(2) The need of the requesting recipient relative to the needs of other requesting recipients throughout the state, including a fair allocation of the funds.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 4. The department shall adopt rules for the administration and implementation of this act.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 5. The department shall use all legal means reasonably available to collect in full loans issued under section 3 of this act.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 6. The sum of two hundred sixty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 1989, from the general fund to the department of community development for the purposes of this act. No more than ten thousand dollars of this appropriation may be used for administrative costs.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 7. Sections 1 through 4 of this act shall expire June 30, 1989.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 8. The expiration of sections 1 through 4 of this act under section 7 of this act shall not be construed as affecting any right acquired or liability or obligation incurred under those sections or under any rule, regulation, or order adopted under those sections, nor as affecting any proceeding instituted under those sections.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 9. If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.