CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1012
Chapter 174, Laws of 2025
69TH LEGISLATURE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
WOMEN'S COMMISSION—RECEIPT OF GIFTS, GRANTS, AND ENDOWMENTS
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 27, 2025
Passed by the House January 30, 2025 Yeas 77 Nays 19 LAURIE JINKINS
Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 16, 2025 Yeas 32 Nays 16 JOHN LOVICK
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 HOUSE BILL 1012 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth. BERNARD DEAN
Chief Clerk Chief Clerk |
Approved April 29, 2025 3:58 PM | FILED April 30, 2025 |
BOB FERGUSON
Governor of the State of Washington | Secretary of State State of Washington |
HOUSE BILL 1012
Passed Legislature - 2025 Regular Session
State of Washington | 69th Legislature | 2025 Regular Session |
ByRepresentatives Taylor, Mena, Ryu, Reed, Macri, Cortes, Doglio, Gregerson, Ortiz-Self, Simmons, Street, Pollet, Fey, Duerr, Berg, Ormsby, Lekanoff, Parshley, Reeves, and Hill; by request of Women's Commission
Prefiled 12/05/24.Read first time 01/13/25.Referred to Committee on State Government & Tribal Relations.
AN ACT Relating to expressly authorizing the women's commission to solicit gifts, grants, and endowments from public or private sources; and amending RCW
43.119.050.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW
43.119.050 and 2018 c 98 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
The Washington state women's commission shall have the following powers:
(1) ((Receive))Solicit and receive gifts, grants, and endowments from public or private sources that are made for the use or benefit of the commission and to expend the same or any income therefrom according to their terms and the purpose of this chapter. The commission's executive director shall make a report of such funds received from private sources to the office of financial management on a regular basis. Such funds received from private sources shall not be applied to reduce or substitute for the commission's budget as appropriated by the legislature, but shall be applied and expended toward projects and functions authorized by this chapter that were not funded by the legislature.
(2) In carrying out its duties, the commission may establish such relationships with public and private institutions, local governments, private industry, community organizations, and other segments of the general public as may be needed to promote equal opportunity for women in government, education, economic security, employment, and services.
(3) The commission may adopt rules and regulations pursuant to chapter
34.05 RCW as shall be necessary to implement the purpose of this chapter.
Passed by the House January 30, 2025.
Passed by the Senate April 16, 2025.
Approved by the Governor April 29, 2025.
Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 30, 2025.
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