Read first time 01/28/11.   Referred to Committee on Community Development & Housing.

     AN ACT Relating to providing that the manufacturing innovation and modernization extension service program is not to sunset; amending RCW 43.338.040; and repealing RCW 43.131.409 and 43.131.410.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 43.338.040 and 2008 c 315 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
     Any qualified manufacturing extension partnership affiliate receiving funding under the program shall collect and submit to the department annually data on the number of clients served, the scope of services provided, and outcomes achieved during the previous calendar year. By December 1 of the year following any calendar year in which funding was received under the program, the department must evaluate the data submitted and use it in a ((biennial)) report on the program submitted to the appropriate committees of the legislature.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2   The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:
     (1) RCW 43.131.409 (Manufacturing innovation and modernization extension service program -- Termination) and 2008 c 315 s 7; and
     (2) RCW 43.131.410 (Manufacturing innovation and modernization extension service program -- Repeal) and 2008 c 315 s 8.