CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 2630

                    Chapter 18, Laws of 2000

                        56th Legislature

                      2000 Regular Session

WAREHOUSE RECEIPTS--SHARE CROP LEASE

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/8/00

Passed by the House February 8, 2000   Yeas 97   Nays 0              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the House of Representatives               FRANK CHOPP Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate February 29, 2000   Yeas 45   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE We, Timothy A. Martin and Cynthia Zehnder, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2630  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.           TIMOTHY A. MARTIN                           Chief Clerk            CYNTHIA ZEHNDER                           Chief Clerk

BRAD OWEN President of the Senate

Approved March 17, 2000 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.	FILED                            March 17, 2000 - 2:24 p.m.
GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington	Secretary of State                  State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 2630

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             Passed Legislature - 2000 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Representatives Schoesler, Mastin, Linville and Anderson; by request of Commissioner of Public Lands

Read first time 01/18/2000.  Referred to Committee on Natural Resources.

Changing warehouse receipts. 

    AN ACT Relating to warehouse receipts; and amending RCW 79.12.600.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 79.12.600 and 1949 c 203 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

    When ((wheat, barley, rye, corn, other grain or peas)) crops that are covered by a share crop lease are harvested, the lessee shall give written notice to the commissioner that the crop is being harvested, and shall also give to the commissioner the name and address of the warehouse or elevator to which such ((grain or peas)) crops are sold or in which such ((grain or peas)) crops will be stored.  The lessee shall also serve on the owner of such warehouse or elevator a written copy of so much of the lease as shall show the percentage of division of the proceeds of such crop as between lessee and lessor.  The owner of such warehouse or elevator shall make out ((two warehouse receipts, one receipt showing the percentage of grain or peas belonging to the state and the other showing the percentage of grain or peas belonging to the lessee, and the respective amounts thereof)) a warehouse receipt, which receipt may be negotiable or nonnegotiable as directed by the state, showing the percentage of crops belonging to the state, and the respective gross and net amounts, grade, and location thereof, and shall deliver to the commissioner the receipt for the state's percentage of such ((grain or peas)) crops within ten days after ((he)) the owner has received such instructions.

    Passed the House February 8, 2000.

    Passed the Senate February 29, 2000.

Approved by the Governor March 17, 2000.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 17, 2000.