CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        HOUSE BILL 1422

 

 

                   Chapter 228, Laws of 1999

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

 

STATE INVESTMENT BOARD--SECURITIES' NOMINEE

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the House March 8, 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 47   Nays 0

             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 HOUSE BILL 1422  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 10, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.          

                                FILED                

 

             May 10, 1999 - 4:11 p.m.

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                          HOUSE BILL 1422

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By Representatives H. Sommers, Huff, Benson, Hatfield and McIntire; by request of State Investment Board

 

Read first time 01/25/1999.  Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance.

Authorizing the state investment board to directly order actions relating to securities. 


    AN ACT Relating to the state investment board; and amending RCW 43.33A.130.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 43.33A.130 and 1981 c 3 s 13 are each amended to read as follows:

    The state treasurer may cause any securities in which the state investment board deals to be registered in the name of a nominee without mention of any fiduciary relationship, except that adequate records shall be maintained to identify the actual owner of the security so registered.  The securities so registered shall be held in the physical custody of the state treasurer, the federal reserve system, the designee of the state treasurer, or, at the election of the designee and upon approval of the state treasurer, the Depository Trust Company of New York City or its designees.

    With respect to the securities, the nominee shall act only upon the order of the ((state treasurer who shall act only on the direction of the)) state investment board.  All rights to the dividends, interest, and sale proceeds from the securities and all voting rights of the securities are vested in the actual owners of the securities, and not in the nominee.


    Passed the House March 8, 1999.

    Passed the Senate April 12, 1999.

Approved by the Governor May 10, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 10, 1999.