BILL REQ. #:  S-4004.1 

Read first time 01/25/12.   Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Water & Rural Economic Development.

     AN ACT Relating to livestock inspection; amending RCW 16.57.160 and 16.57.220; and repealing RCW 16.57.303.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 16.57.160 and 2011 c 204 s 13 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) The director may adopt rules:
     (a) Designating any point for mandatory inspection of cattle or horses or the furnishing of proof that cattle or horses passing or being transported through the point have been inspected or identified and are lawfully being transported;
     (b) Providing for issuance of individual horse and cattle identification certificates or other means of horse and cattle identification;
     (c) Designating the documents that constitute other satisfactory proof of ownership for cattle and horses. A bill of sale may not be designated as documenting satisfactory proof of ownership for cattle; and
     (d) Designating when inspection certificates, certificates of permit, or other transportation documents required by law or rule must designate a physical address of a destination. Cattle and horses must be delivered or transported directly to the physical address of that destination.
     (2) A self-inspection certificate may be accepted as satisfactory proof of ownership for cattle if the director determines that the self-inspection certificate, together with other available documentation, sufficiently establishes ownership. Self-inspection certificates completed after June 10, 2010, are not satisfactory proof of ownership for cattle.
     (3) Individual private sales of unbranded dairy breeding cattle of fifteen head or less where both the buyer and seller are milk producers holding a current milk producer's license under chapter 15.36 RCW and cattle are not being moved or transported out of Washington state are exempt from mandatory livestock inspection under this chapter, however this exemption from inspections does not exempt cattle sellers from paying any other fees or assessments, including beef promotion fees, owed to the Washington state beef commission under chapter 16.67 RCW and animal disease traceability fees owed to the department under RCW 16.36.150.

Sec. 2   RCW 16.57.220 and 2010 c 66 s 7 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) Except as provided for in RCW 16.65.090 and otherwise in this section, the fee for livestock inspection is one dollar and sixty cents per head for cattle and three dollars and fifty cents for horses or the time and mileage fee, whichever is greater.
     (2) When cattle are identified with the owner's brand or other form of identification specified by the director by rule, the fee for livestock inspection is one dollar and ten cents per head or the time and mileage fee, whichever is greater.
     (3) No inspection fee is charged for a calf that is inspected before moving out-of-state under an official temporary grazing permit if the calf is part of a cow-calf unit and the calf is identified with the owner's Washington-recorded brand or other form of identification specified by the director by rule.
     (4) The fee for inspection of cattle at a processing plant with a daily capacity of no more than five hundred head of cattle where the United States department of agriculture maintains a meat inspection program is four dollars per head.
     (5) When a single inspection certificate issued for thirty or more horses belonging to one person, the fee for livestock inspection is two dollars per head or the time and mileage fee, whichever is greater.
     (6) The fee for individual identification certificates is twenty dollars for an annual certificate and sixty dollars for a lifetime certificate or the time and mileage fee, whichever is greater. However, the fee for an annual certificate listing thirty or more animals belonging to one person is five dollars per head or the time and mileage fee, whichever is greater. A lifetime certificate shall not be issued until the fee has been paid to the director.
     (7) The minimum fee for the issuance of an inspection certificate by the director is five dollars. The minimum fee does not apply to livestock consigned to a public livestock market or special sale or inspected at a cattle processing plant.
     (8) The department may not exempt payment of the fee under this section where a mandatory livestock inspection is conducted under this chapter.
     (9) For purposes of this section, "the time and mileage fee" means seventeen dollars per hour and the current mileage rate set by the office of financial management.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3   RCW 16.57.303 (Proceeds from sale of impounded dairy breed cattle -- Paid to seller) and 2003 c 326 s 37 are each repealed.