CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5648

                    Chapter 95, Laws of 1999

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

BUSINESSES FURNISHING LODGING--DEFINITION

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the Senate March 13, 1999   YEAS 43   NAYS 0                BRAD OWEN President of the Senate Passed by the House April 8, 1999   YEAS 95   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 5648 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives	TONY M. COOK                             Secretary
FRANK CHOPP Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Approved April 22, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                      April 22, 1999 - 3:57 p.m.

GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                  State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 5648

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Senator Haugen

Read first time 02/01/1999.  Referred to Committee on Commerce, Trade, Housing & Financial Institutions.

Providing consistency in definitions regarding businesses furnishing lodging. 

    AN ACT Relating to providing consistency in definitions regarding businesses furnishing lodging; and amending RCW 19.48.010.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 19.48.010 and 1929 c 216 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    Any building held out to the public to be an inn, hotel or public lodging house or place where sleeping accommodations, whether with or without meals, or the facilities for preparing the same, are furnished for hire to transient guests, in which ((fifteen)) three or more rooms are used for the accommodation of such guests, shall for the purposes of this chapter and chapter 60.64 RCW, or any amendment thereof, only, be defined to be a hotel, and whenever the word hotel shall occur in this chapter and chapter 60.64 RCW, or any amendment thereof, it shall be construed to mean a hotel as herein described.

    Passed the Senate March 13, 1999.

    Passed the House April 8, 1999.

Approved by the Governor April 22, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 22, 1999.