CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

              ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1245

 

 

                   Chapter 150, Laws of 1999

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY, TRADE, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT--CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the House March 10, 1999

  Yeas 98   Nays 0

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate April 13, 1999

  Yeas 45   Nays 2

             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 ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1245  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 April 30, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.          

                                FILED                

 

          April 30, 1999 - 11:54 a.m.

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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               ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1245

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on State Government (originally sponsored by Representatives Morris, Dunn and Rockefeller; by request of Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development)

 

Read first time 02/26/1999.

  Exempting certain financial and proprietary information from public disclosure.   


    AN ACT Relating to exemption of certain financial and proprietary information from public disclosure; and amending RCW 42.17.319.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 42.17.319 and 1993 c 280 s 36 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 42.17.260 through 42.17.340, ((no financial or proprietary information supplied by investors or entrepreneurs under chapter 43.330 RCW shall be made available to the public)) the following information supplied to the department of community, trade, and economic development by any person in connection with the siting, recruitment, expansion, retention, or relocation of that person's business shall not be made available to the public by the department or the office of the governor:

    (a) Financial or proprietary information; and

    (b) Until a siting decision is made, identifying information of any person supplying information under this section and the locations being considered for siting, relocation, or expansion of a business.

    (2) For the purposes of this section, "siting decision" means the decision to acquire or not to acquire a site.

    (3) If there is no written contact for a period of sixty days to the department from a person connected with siting, recruitment, expansion, retention, or relocation of that person's business, information described in subsection (1)(b) of this section will be available to the public under the provisions of RCW 42.17.250 through 42.17.340.

    (4) Nothing in this section shall apply to records of any other state agency or of a local agency.


    Passed the House March 10, 1999.

    Passed the Senate April 13, 1999.

Approved by the Governor April 30, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 30, 1999.