Office of Governor Gary Locke
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 14, 2002
Contact:  Governor's Communications Office, 360-902-4136

Locke signs 22 bills into law

OLYMPIA – Gov. Gary Locke today took action on 22 bills (listed below), approving and signing them into law during a morning bill-signing ceremony at the capitol.

• Engrossed Substitute House Bill No. 2540
  Relating to collective bargaining for University of Washington employees who are enrolled in academic programs
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6425
  Relating to authorizing access to school meal programs and kitchen facilities
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6430
  Relating to high school diplomas for World War II veterans
  
  
• Engrossed Senate Bill No. 6456
  Relating to authorizing the academic achievement and accountability commission to set performance improvement goals for certain disaggregated groups of students and dropout goals
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6460
  Relating to funding local government research services
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6469
  Relating to information concerning mental health services provided to offenders
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6471
  Relating to labeling of agricultural products by place of origin
  
  
• Engrossed Senate Bill No. 6505
  Relating to local improvement districts
  
  
• Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill No. 6535
  Relating to the chemical dependency disposition alternative
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6572
  Relating to conservation district supervisors
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6578
  Relating to leases for personal wireless communication facilities
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6587
  Relating to eye banks
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6597
  Relating to alternative public works contracting procedures
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6602
  Relating to extortion in the second degree
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6624
  Relating to well construction
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6629
  Relating to a family law handbook
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6664
  Relating to the department of corrections' authority to require offenders eligible for release to community custody status in lieu of earned release to propose a release plan that complies with the department's program for placing offenders in the community in lieu of early release
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6691
  Relating to authorizing less-than-countywide port districts with five commissioners with three commissioners districts and two at large commissioner districts to create five port commissioner districts
  
  
• Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill No. 6702
  Relating to protecting sibling relationships
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6740
  Relating to irrigation districts' acceptance of methods of payment
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6788
  Relating to benefits for dependent parents of homicide victims
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6798
  Relating to street vacations

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