Office of Governor Gary Locke
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 2, 2002
Contact:  Governor's Communications Office, 360-902-4136

Locke signs 37 bills into law

OLYMPIA – Gov. Gary Locke today took action on 37 bills (listed below), approving and signing them into law during a morning bill-signing ceremony at the capitol.

• Second Substitute House Bill No. 1646
  Relating to alternative educational service providers
  
  
• Substitute House Bill No. 2060
  Relating to funds for operating and maintenance of low-income housing projects and for innovative housing demonstration projects
  
  
• Substitute House Bill No. 2160
  Relating to the separate reserve fund maintained by a charitable gift annuity business
  
  
• House Bill No. 2299
  Relating to defining person under the Business Corporation Act, Uniform Limited Partnership Act, and Limited Liability Company Act
  
  
• Substitute House Bill No. 2301
  Relating to authorizing electronic notice and other communications under the Washington Business Corporation Act
  
  
• Engrossed Substitute House Bill No. 2305
  Relating to clarifying the application of Shoreline Master Program guidelines and master programs to agricultural activities on agricultural lands
  
  
• Substitute House Bill No. 2308
  Relating to recycling and waste reduction
  
  
• House Bill No. 2317
  Relating to technical changes to Title 48 RCW
  
  
• Engrossed Substitute House Bill No. 2323
  Relating to commercial fishers
  
  
• Second Substitute House Bill No. 2346
  Relating to the Uniform Parentage Act
  
  
• House Bill No. 2365
  Relating to increasing the size of the State Investment Board
  
  
• Substitute House Bill No. 2400
  Relating to installing recreational docks and mooring buoys
  
  
• Substitute House Bill No. 2456
  Relating to the Linked Deposit Program
  
  
• Engrossed House Bill No. 2498
  Relating to establishing a pilot program authorizing designation of industrial land banks outside urban growth areas under certain circumstances
  
  
• Engrossed Substitute House Bill No. 2506
  Relating to the Joint Task Force on Green Building
  
  
• Engrossed Substitute House Bill No. 2574
  Relating to a children's system of care
  
  
• Substitute House Bill No. 2589
  Relating to licensure of audiologists and speech-language pathologists
  
  
• House Bill No. 2625
  Relating to eliminating the exclusivity of gill net gear in certain waters
  
  
• Substitute House Bill No. 2648
  Relating to the Office of Financial Management
  
  
• Engrossed Substitute House Bill No. 2688
  Relating to regulating commodity boards and commissions
  
  
• House Bill No. 2732
  Relating to the tax treatment of revenue from federal or state subsidized health care
  
  
• Substitute House Bill No. 2765
  Relating to timber and forest lands
  
  
• House Bill No. 2892
  Relating to selling apples for fresh consumption
  
  
• Engrossed House Bill No. 3011
  Relating to local effort assistance
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 5097
  Relating to displaying flags
  
  
• Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill No. 5207
  Relating to individually identifiable DNA testing information
  
  
• Engrossed Senate Bill No. 5626
  Relating to the definition of veteran
  
  
• Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill No. 5777
  Relating to health care benefits for retirees of local government employers
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 5841
  Relating to establishing a schedule for review of comprehensive plans and development regulations adopted under the Growth Management Act
  
  
• Second Substitute Senate Bill No. 5949
  Relating to erecting and maintaining motorist information sign panels
  
  
• Engrossed Senate Bill No. 5954
  Relating to obsolete racial terminology
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6254
  Relating to the fruit and vegetable inspection account
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6409
  Relating to construction defect claims asserting property loss and damage
  
  
• Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill No. 6490
  Relating to motor vehicle theft
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6591
  Relating to revising the tobacco products tax by imposing the tax upon those persons who acquire tobacco products for resale from persons who are immune from state tax
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6709
  Related to coordinated service and education planning for children in out-of-home care
  
  
• Engrossed Senate Bill No. 6726
  Relating to complaints against dairy farms

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