BILL REQ. #:  S-4556.1 

READ FIRST TIME 02/07/12.   

     AN ACT Relating to creating the Walla Walla state veterans' home; amending RCW 72.36.035; adding a new section to chapter 72.36 RCW; and providing a contingent effective date.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   A new section is added to chapter 72.36 RCW to read as follows:
     There shall be established and maintained in this state a branch of the state soldiers' home, under the name of the "Walla Walla state veterans' home," which shall be a home for veterans and their spouses who meet admission requirements contained in RCW 72.36.030.

Sec. 2   RCW 72.36.035 and 2002 c 292 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:
     For purposes of this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
     (1) "Actual bona fide residents of this state" means persons who have a domicile in the state of Washington immediately prior to application for admission to a state veterans' home.
     (2) "Department" means the Washington state department of veterans affairs.
     (3) "Domicile" means a person's true, fixed, and permanent home and place of habitation, and shall be the place where the person intends to remain, and to which the person expects to return when the person leaves without intending to establish a new domicile elsewhere.
     (4) "State veterans' homes" means the Washington soldiers' home and colony in Orting, the Washington veterans' home in Retsil, ((and)) the eastern Washington veterans' home, and the Walla Walla state veterans' home.
     (5) "Veteran" has the same meaning established in RCW 41.04.007.

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3   This act takes effect upon certification by the director of the office of financial management that sufficient and specific funding, referencing this act by bill or chapter number, has been provided by June 30, 2012, in the omnibus capital appropriations act for the state funds required by the United States department of veterans affairs state home construction grant program for the construction of the state soldiers' home created in section 1 of this act. A notice of certification must be filed with the code reviser for publication in the state register. If a certificate is not filed by the director of the office of financial management by June 30, 2012, this act is null and void.