FINAL BILL REPORT

SSB 5734

C 157 L 01

Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Modifying requirements to receive state allocations for an agricultural fair.

Sponsors:  Senate Committee on Agriculture & International Trade (originally sponsored by Senators Hale, Hewitt and Parlette).

Senate Committee on Agriculture & International Trade

House Committee on Agriculture & Ecology

Background:  To qualify for an allocation from the state fair fund, a fair organization is required to have conducted two successful consecutive annual fairs immediately preceding the year of application for funding.  The director of the Department of Agriculture was authorized to waive this requirement for the period from January 1, 1994, though June 30, 1997.

Interest has been expressed to change the organizational structure of a county fair that historically has  been operated jointly by two counties into an area fair operated by a local fair association.

Summary:  The director of the Department of Agriculture is authorized to waive the requirement for two years of successful operation for a fair that reorganizes from a county fair to an area fair.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate480

House     93 0

Effective:  May 2, 2001