CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 2267

                   Chapter 251, Laws of 1997

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

DISASTER RESPONSE ACCOUNT

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  5/5/97

Passed by the House April 14, 1997   Yeas 90   Nays 0              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 18, 1997   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 2267  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 May 5, 1997 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                         May 5, 1997 - 4:26 p.m.

GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 2267

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By Representatives Huff, H. Sommers, Hatfield, Kessler, Lambert, Ogden, Dickerson, Kenney and Wensman; by request of Office of Financial Management

Read first time 03/18/97.  Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

Creating the disaster response account. 

    AN ACT Relating to the disaster response account; adding a new section to chapter 38.52 RCW; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 38.52 RCW to read as follows:

    The disaster response account is created in the state treasury.  Moneys may be placed in the account from legislative appropriations and transfers, federal appropriations, or any other lawful source.  Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation.  Expenditures from the account may be used only for support of state agency and local government disaster response and recovery efforts.

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 takes effect immediately.

    Passed the House April 14, 1997.

    Passed the Senate April 18, 1997.

Approved by the Governor May 5, 1997.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 5, 1997.