CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        HOUSE BILL 2258

 

 

                    Chapter 26, Laws of 2001

 

 

                        57th Legislature

            2001 Second Special Legislative Session

 

 

NATURAL DISASTER RELIEF

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/13/01

Passed by the House June 18, 2001

  Yeas 84   Nays 0

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate June 20, 2001

  Yeas 39   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 2258  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

           CYNTHIA ZEHNDER

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

 

 

Approved July 13, 2001 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.                

                                FILED                

 

            July 13, 2001 - 3:17 p.m.

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington

H-2639.1  _______________________________________________

 

                          HOUSE BILL 2258

          _______________________________________________

 

           Passed Legislature - 2001 2nd Special Session

 

State of Washington      57th Legislature 2001 First Special Session

 

By Representatives H. Sommers and Sehlin

 

Read first time 04/26/2001.  Referred to Committee on Appropriations.

Funding drought and earthquake emergency relief. 


    AN ACT Relating to funding drought and earthquake emergency relief; making appropriations; and declaring an emergency.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  The sum of five million dollars is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 2003, from the emergency reserve fund for deposit in the state drought preparedness account in response to the emergency caused by a natural disaster and declared a statewide drought emergency by the governor on March 14, 2001.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  The sum of twenty million dollars is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 2003, from the emergency reserve fund for deposit in the Nisqually earthquake account in response to the emergency caused by a natural disaster, known as the Nisqually earthquake, as declared by chapter 5, Laws of 2001, the governor, and the president of the United States.

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.  This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately.

    Passed the House June 18, 2001.

    Passed the Senate June 20, 2001.

Approved by the Governor July 13, 2001.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State July 13, 2001.