CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1706

                    Chapter 15, Laws of 1995

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

          Dairy inspection program assessment extended

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  4/12/95

Passed by the House March 8, 1995   Yeas 97   Nays 0 CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 4, 1995   Yeas 47   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1706 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN                           Chief Clerk

Approved April 12, 1995 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                     April 12, 1995 - 11:16 a.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 1706

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             Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Representatives Koster, Chandler, Johnson, McMorris, Honeyford, Mastin, Boldt, Clements, Benton, McMahan, Smith, Kremen and Robertson

Read first time 02/06/95.  Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Ecology.

Extending the dairy inspection program assessment.

    AN ACT Relating to the dairy inspection program assessment; amending RCW 15.36.551; and declaring an emergency.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 15.36.551 and 1994 c 34 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    There is levied on all milk processed in this state an assessment not to exceed fifty-four one-hundredths of one cent per hundredweight.  The director shall determine, by rule, an assessment, that with contribution from the general fund, will support an inspection program to maintain compliance with the provisions of the pasteurized milk ordinance of the national conference on interstate milk shipment.  All assessments shall be levied on the operator of the first milk plant receiving the milk for processing.  This shall include milk plants that produce their own milk for processing and milk plants that receive milk from other sources.  All moneys collected under this section shall be paid to the director by the twentieth day of the succeeding month for the previous month's assessments.  The director shall deposit the funds into the dairy inspection account hereby created within the agricultural local fund established in RCW 43.23.230.  The funds shall be used only to provide inspection services to the dairy industry.  If the operator of a milk plant fails to remit any assessments, that sum shall be a lien on any property owned by him or her, and shall be reported by the director and collected in the manner and with the same priority over other creditors as prescribed for the collection of delinquent taxes under chapters 84.60 and 84.64 RCW.

    This section shall expire June 30, ((1995)) 2000.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.

    Passed the House March 8, 1995.

    Passed the Senate April 4, 1995.

Approved by the Governor April 12, 1995.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 12, 1995.