CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1224

                   Chapter 171, Laws of 1999

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

WORKER FALL PROTECTION--PERMANENT ANCHORS

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the House March 10, 1999   Yeas 97   Nays 0              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the House of Representatives               FRANK CHOPP Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 12, 1999   Yeas 35   Nays 12

CERTIFICATE We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1224  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.            DEAN R. FOSTER                           Chief Clerk           TIMOTHY A. MARTIN                           Chief Clerk

BRAD OWEN President of the Senate

Approved May 5, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.	FILED                               May 5, 1999 - 3:49 p.m.
GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington	Secretary of State                  State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1224

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By House Committee on Commerce & Labor (originally sponsored by Representatives Hurst, Conway, Campbell, Cairnes, Kessler, Clements, McIntire and Ogden)

Read first time 03/02/1999.

Requiring a permanent anchor for worker fall protection.  

    AN ACT Relating to requiring a permanent anchor for worker fall protection; and adding a new section to chapter 19.27 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 19.27 RCW to read as follows:

    By October 1, 1999, the building code council shall prepare a report to the legislature documenting the need, including safety benefits, for requiring the installation of permanent anchors for fall protection on all new commercial and residential construction and when a roof is replaced on existing commercial and residential structures.  The report shall contain recommendations on the best design and placement of such anchors.

    Passed the House March 10, 1999.

    Passed the Senate April 12, 1999.

Approved by the Governor May 5, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 5, 1999.