CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1088

 

 

                   Chapter 129, Laws of 1998

 

 

 

 

                        55th Legislature

                      1998 Regular Session

 

 

STATE FOSSIL

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/11/98

Passed by the House January 16, 1998  Yeas 89   Nays 0

 

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate March 11, 1998

  Yeas 34   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 SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1088  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

Approved March 25, 1998 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.     

                                FILED          

 

 

           March 25, 1998 - 4:15 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1088

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             Passed Legislature - 1998 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Government Administration (originally sponsored by Representatives Sheahan and Schoesler)

 

Read first time 02/04/97.

  Designating Mammuthus COLUMBI as the official fossil of the state of Washington.   


    AN ACT Relating to the state fossil; adding a new section to chapter 1.20 RCW; and creating a new section.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  The legislature recognizes that the large, hairy prehistoric elephants of the extinct genus Mammuthus roamed the north American continent, including the Pacific Northwest, during the Pleistocene epoch (Ice Ages).

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 1.20 RCW to read as follows:

    The Columbian mammoth of North America, Mammuthus COLUMBI, is hereby designated as the official fossil of the state of Washington.


    Passed the House January 16, 1998.

    Passed the Senate March 11, 1998.

Approved by the Governor March 25, 1998.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 25, 1998.