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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 807

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Representatives Brekke, B. Williams, H. Sommers, Winsley, Nelson, Unsoeld, Heavey, May, Rust, Belcher, Grant, Hine, Cole, Leonard, Jacobsen, Niemi, Brough, Miller, Allen, Hankins, Holland, Patrick, D. Sommers, Wang, Valle, P. King, Wineberry, Bumgarner, Silver, Spanel, Rasmussen, Rayburn, Haugen, Todd and Holm

Read first time 2/11/87 and referred to Committee on Human Services.

AN ACT Relating to displaced homemakers; amending RCW 36.18.010; adding a new section to chapter 28B.04 RCW; and repealing section 11, chapter 15, Laws of 1982 1st ex. sess. (uncodified).

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 36.18.010, chapter 4, Laws of 1963 as last amended by section 2, chapter 44, Laws of 1985 and RCW 36.18.010 are each amended to read as follows:

          County auditors shall collect the following fees for their official services:

          For recording instruments, for the first page, legal size (eight and one-half by thirteen inches or less), five dollars; for each additional legal size page, one dollar;

          For preparing and certifying copies, for the first legal size page, three dollars; for each additional legal size page, one dollar;

          For preparing noncertified copies, for each legal size page, one dollar;

          For administering an oath or taking an affidavit, with or without seal, two dollars;

          For issuing a marriage license, eight dollars, (this fee includes taking necessary affidavits, filing returns, indexing, and transmittal of a record of the marriage to the state registrar of vital statistics) plus an additional five-dollar fee to be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer and deposited in the state general fund, which five-dollar fee shall expire June 30, 1988, plus an additional ((five-dollar)) ten-dollar fee to be transmitted monthly to the state treasurer and deposited in the state general fund ((which five-dollar fee shall expire June 30, 1987));

          For searching records per hour, eight dollars;

          For recording plats, fifty cents for each lot except cemetery plats for which the charge shall be twenty-five cents per lot; also one dollar for each acknowledgment, dedication, and description:  PROVIDED, That there shall be a minimum fee of twenty-five dollars per plat;

          For recording of miscellaneous records, not listed above, for first legal size page, five dollars; for each additional legal size page, one dollar.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 28B.04 RCW to read as follows:

          (1) The executive coordinator of the higher education coordinating board shall establish an advisory committee, to be known as the displaced homemaker program advisory committee.

          (2) The advisory committee shall be advisory to the executive coordinator and staff of the board.

          (3) Committee membership shall not exceed twenty-two persons and shall be geographically and generally representative of the state.  At least one member of the advisory committee shall either be or recently have been a displaced homemaker.

          (4) Functions of the advisory committee shall be:

          (a) To provide advice on all aspects of administration of the displaced homemaker program, including content of program rules, guidelines, and application procedures;

          (b) To assist in coordination of activities under the displaced homemaker program with related activities of other state and federal agencies, with particular emphasis on facilitation of coordinated funding.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  Section 11, chapter 15, Laws of 1982 1st ex. sess. (uncodified) is repealed.