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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1019

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By House Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Pennington, Hatfield, Mielke and Ogden)

READ FIRST TIME 02/19/01. 

_1      AN ACT Relating to the fish and wildlife commission; and

_2  amending RCW 77.04.030.

_3  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

_4      Sec. 1.  RCW 77.04.030 and 2000 c 107 s 203 are each amended to

_5  read as follows:

_6      The fish and wildlife commission consists of nine registered

_7  voters of the state appointed by the governor with the advice and

_8  consent of the senate.  In January of each odd-numbered year, the

_9  governor shall appoint ((with the advice and consent of the

10  senate)) two registered voters to the commission to serve for

11  terms of six years from that January or until their successors are

12  appointed and qualified.  If a vacancy occurs on the commission

13  prior to the expiration of a term, the governor shall appoint a

14  registered voter within sixty days to complete the term.  ((Three

15  members shall be residents of that portion of the state lying east

16  of the summit of the Cascade mountains, and three shall be

17  residents of that portion of the state lying west of the summit of

18  the Cascade mountains.)) Six members shall be appointed to

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_1  represent the six administrative regions of the department as they

_2  existed on January 1, 2001, with each of these members

_3  representing a different administrative region.  The department

_4  shall adopt the six administrative regions by rule.  A member

_5  representing an administrative region of the department must be a

_6  resident of that region.  The governor shall appoint commissioners

_7  to achieve this balance by administrative region as the terms of

_8  commissioners expire and vacancies occur. Three additional members

_9  shall be appointed at-large.  All members are to serve a six-year

10  term.  No two members may be residents of the same county.  The

11  legal office of the commission is at the administrative office of

12  the department in Olympia.

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