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HOUSE BILL NO. 1043
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State of Washington 49th Legislature 1985 Regular Session
By Representatives Schoon, B. Williams, Lundquist, Doty and Armstrong
Read first time 2/8/85 and referred to Committee on Trade & Economic Development.
AN ACT Relating to trade and economic development; amending RCW 43.210.050; creating new sections; making an appropriation; and providing an expiration date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 5, chapter 20, Laws of 1983 1st ex. sess. and RCW 43.210.050 are each amended to read as follows:
The export
assistance center formed under RCW 43.210.020 and 43.210.030 is eligible to
receive consideration for a contract under this chapter from the department of
commerce and economic development or its statutory successor. The contract
shall require the center to provide export assistance services and may not have
a duration of longer than two years. The center, including its branch, for the
biennium ending June 30, ((1985)) 1987, may not have more than
one contract with the department of commerce and economic development or its
statutory successor.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. The director of commerce and economic development or its statutory successor shall: (a) Report to the governor and the legislature before October 1, 1987, concerning the contract made with the export assistance center under this chapter during the 1985-87 biennium, and the operations and activities of the export assistance center during that period; and (b) make annual reports to the export assistance center by September 1st as to products and services the department or its statutory successor has been able to identify and has targeted as those products and services which are sought by foreign markets. Upon request the department or its statutory successor shall furnish a copy of its report to the export assistance center to any interested party.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. There is appropriated from the general fund to the department of commerce and economic development or its statutory successor for the biennium ending June 30, 1987, the sum of two hundred six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of entering into a contract with the export assistance center and one branch. The department of commerce and economic development or its statutory successor may be eligible for future appropriations as the legislature may provide for the purpose of entering into a new contract with the export assistance center and any branches established by the center after the biennium ending June 30, 1987, or until the export assistance center becomes financially independent of state funding.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 4. (1) The export assistance center shall become financially independent of state funding by June 30, 1987.
(2) The export assistance center shall be required to match its state general fund appropriation, in cash, as follows: (a) During the fiscal year 1986, three state dollars to one dollar private sector; and (b) during fiscal year 1987, two state dollars to one dollar private sector.