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                                                      HOUSE BILL 1680

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Eide, Wineberry, Pruitt, Valle, Sheldon, Quall, Brough, Holm, Jacobsen and Riley

Read first time 02/05/93.  Referred to Committee on Trade, Economic Development & Housing.

Authorizing funds to set up a pilot project to employ electronic communication equipment from Washington locations to import-export offices in Russia.

          AN ACT Relating to import-export communication technology; and making an appropriation.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The sum of fifty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 1995, from the general fund to the department of trade and economic development to contract with the world trade center in Tacoma to set up a pilot program to employ newly available electronic communication equipment from locations throughout Washington state to Russia.  The program's purpose is to build trade capacity promoting jobs for small and medium-sized businesses in Washington.

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