SB 6825.E - DIGEST

(AS OF SENATE 2ND READING 2/14/00)

     Directs the department of social and health services to transfer the approximately five hundred seventy-five acres of the greater Western state hospital campus not a part of the central institutional campus to the corpus of the charitable, educational, penal, and reformatory institution account.  The transferred property shall be managed pursuant to the principles specified in RCW 79.01.006 and 79.01.007 except that it may never be sold or exchanged without specific approval contained in an act of law.

     Provides that any income from the property transferred pursuant to this act must be used for the benefit of the mentally ill as specified in the original federal grant.

     Directs the department to renegotiate any lease provisions that conflict with the transfer or trust land management principles, to  the extent not otherwise prohibited by law.

     Declares that, under no circumstance may the department of natural resources fail to accept land designated for transfer under this act within one hundred eighty days without specific authority to do so in an act of law.