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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 926

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representatives Sommers, Jacobsen, Miller and Wineberry

Read first time 2/8/85 and referred to Committee on Higher Education.

AN ACT Relating to the state museum of the University of Washington; amending RCW 27.40.010; repealing RCW 43.131.263 and 43.131.264; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 30, Laws of 1899 and RCW  27.40.010 are each amended to read as follows:

          The Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum of the University of Washington is hereby constituted the state natural history and anthropology museum as a ((depository)) repository for the preservation ((and)), exhibition, interpretation, and conservation of documents and objects ((possessing an historical value, of materials illustrating the fauna, flora, anthropology, mineral wealth, and natural resources of the state, and for all documents and objects whose preservation will be of value to the student of history and the natural sciences)) of a systematic anthropological, geographical, and zoological character for the state.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed:

                   (1) Section 5, chapter 197, Laws of 1983 and RCW 43.131.263; and

          (2) Section 31, chapter 197, Laws of 1983 and RCW 43.131.264.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect on June 30, 1985.