CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 2263

Chapter 193, Laws of 2008

60th Legislature
2008 Regular Session



DISHWASHING DETERGENT--PHOSPHORUS CONTENT



EFFECTIVE DATE: 06/12/08

Passed by the House March 12, 2008
  Yeas 97   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate March 12, 2008
  Yeas 47   Nays 2


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2263 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


BARBARA BAKER
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Chief Clerk
Approved March 27, 2008, 3:58 p.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
March 28, 2008







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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HOUSE BILL 2263
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

Passed Legislature - 2008 Regular Session
State of Washington60th Legislature2008 Regular Session

By Representatives Blake, Moeller, Orcutt and Newhouse

Read first time 02/15/2007.   Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources.



     AN ACT Relating to the phosphorus content in dishwashing detergent; and amending RCW 70.95L.020.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 70.95L.020 and 2006 c 223 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) After July 1, 1994, a person may not sell or distribute for sale a laundry detergent that contains 0.5 percent or more phosphorus by weight.
     (2)(a) After July 1, 1994, and until the dates specified in (((b) of)) this subsection, a person may not sell or distribute for sale a dishwashing detergent that contains 8.7 percent or more ((phosphorous [phosphorus])) phosphorus by weight.
     (b) Beginning July 1, 2008, in counties located east of the crest of the Cascade mountains with populations greater than four hundred thousand, as determined by office of financial management population estimates, a person may not sell or distribute for sale a dishwashing detergent that contains 0.5 percent or more phosphorus by weight((:
     (i) Commencing
)).
     (c) From
July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2010, in counties located west of the crest of the Cascade mountains with populations((, as determined by office of financial management population estimates:
     (A)
)) greater than one hundred eighty thousand and less than two hundred twenty thousand((; and
     (B) Greater than three hundred ninety thousand and less than six hundred fifty thousand;
)), as determined by office of financial management population estimates, a person may not sell or distribute for sale a dishwashing detergent that contains 0.5 percent or more phosphorus by weight except in a single-use package containing no more than 2.0 grams of phosphorus.
     (((ii) Commencing)) (d) Beginning July 1, 2010, ((throughout)) a person may not sell or distribute for sale a dishwashing detergent that contains 0.5 percent or more phosphorus by weight in the state.
     (e) For purposes of this section, "single-use package" means a tablet or other form of dishwashing detergent that is constituted and intended for use in a single washing.
     (3) This section does not apply to the sale or distribution of detergents for commercial and industrial uses.


         Passed by the House March 12, 2008.
         Passed by the Senate March 12, 2008.
         Approved by the Governor March 27, 2008.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 28, 2008.