CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1609
69TH LEGISLATURE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Passed by the House March 11, 2025 Yeas 78 Nays 17
Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 11, 2025 Yeas 49 Nays 0
President of the Senate | CERTIFICATE I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1609 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.
Chief Clerk Chief Clerk |
Approved | FILED |
| Secretary of State State of Washington |
ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1609
Passed Legislature - 2025 Regular Session
State of Washington | 69th Legislature | 2025 Regular Session |
ByRepresentatives Waters, Mena, Reed, and Nance; by request of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Read first time 01/27/25.Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources.
AN ACT Relating to efficient administration of state education agencies; and amending RCW
43.30.205.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW
43.30.205 and 2010 c 189 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The board shall consist of six members:
(a) The governor or the governor's designee;
(b) The superintendent of public instruction or the superintendent's designee from the office of the superintendent of public instruction;
(c) The commissioner;
(d) The director of the University of Washington school of forest resources;
(e) The dean of the Washington State University college of agricultural, human, and natural resource sciences; and
(f) A representative of those counties that contain state forestlands acquired or transferred under RCW
79.22.010,
79.22.040, and
79.22.020.
(2)(a) The county representative on the board shall be selected by the legislative authorities of those counties that contain state forestlands acquired or transferred under RCW
79.22.010,
79.22.040, and
79.22.020. In the selection of the county representative, each participating county shall have one vote. The Washington state association of counties shall convene a meeting for the purpose of making the selection and shall notify the board of the selection.
(b) The county representative must be a duly elected member of a county legislative authority who shall serve a term of four years unless the representative should leave office for any reason. The initial term shall begin on July 1, 1986.
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