| Passed by the Senate February 16, 2004 YEAS 48 ________________________________________ President of the Senate Passed by the House March 2, 2004 YEAS 95 ________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives | I, Milton H. Doumit, Jr., Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6465 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth. ________________________________________ Secretary | |
| Approved ________________________________________ Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
| State of Washington | 58th Legislature | 2004 Regular Session |
Read first time 01/21/2004. Referred to Committee on Agriculture.
AN ACT Relating to extending the expiration date of the dairy inspection program assessment; amending RCW 15.36.551; and providing an expiration date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1 RCW 15.36.551 and 1999 c 291 s 26 are each amended to read
as follows:
There is levied on all milk processed in this state an assessment
not to exceed fifty-four one-hundredths of one cent per hundredweight.
The director shall determine, by rule, an assessment, that with
contribution from the general fund, will support an inspection program
to maintain compliance with the provisions of the pasteurized milk
ordinance of the national conference on interstate milk shipment. All
assessments shall be levied on the operator of the first milk
processing plant receiving the milk for processing. This shall include
milk processing plants that produce their own milk for processing and
milk processing plants that receive milk from other sources. Milk
processing plants whose monthly assessment for receipt of milk totals
less than twenty dollars in any given month are exempted from paying
this assessment for that month. All moneys collected under this
section shall be paid to the director by the twentieth day of the
succeeding month for the previous month's assessments. The director
shall deposit the funds into the dairy inspection account hereby
created within the agricultural local fund established in RCW
43.23.230. The funds shall be used only to provide inspection services
to the dairy industry. If the operator of a milk processing plant
fails to remit any assessments, that sum shall be a lien on any
property owned by him or her, and shall be reported by the director and
collected in the manner and with the same priority over other creditors
as prescribed for the collection of delinquent taxes under chapters
84.60 and 84.64 RCW.
This section expires June 30, ((2005)) 2010.