Office of Governor Gary Locke
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 29, 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 an afternoon bill-signing ceremony at the capitol.

• House Bill No. 2286
  Relating to certificates of ownership for stolen vehicles
  
  
• Engrossed Substitute House Bill No. 2326
  Relating to the Washington Climate and Rural Energy Development Center
  
  
• Substitute House Bill No. 2502
  Relating to the Forest Products Commission
  
  
• Substitute House Bill No. 2767
  Relating to public assistance electronic benefit cards
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 5064
  Relating to cheating at gambling
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 5138
  Relating to vehicles exempt from stopping at weighing stations
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 5209
  Relating to the sale of surplus real property by the Department of Transportation
  
  
• Second Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill No. 5291
  Relating to immunizations at long-term care facilities
  
  
• Second Substitute Senate Bill No. 5354
  Relating to mobile home relocation assistance
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 5594
  Relating to the consolidation of housing authorities
  
  
• Engrossed Senate Bill No. 5624
  Relating to the disclosure of fire protection and building safety information
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 5629
  Relating to the office of financial management's budgeting, accounting and reporting requirements for state agencies
  
  
• Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill No. 5827
  Relating to enforcement of judgments
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 5832
  Relating to enabling counties planning under Chapter 36.70A RCW to create nine lots in a short subdivision within a designated urban growth area
  
  
• Second Engrossed Senate Bill No. 6001
  Relating to inspections of tenant dwelling units by fire department officials for fire code violations
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6248
  Relating to funding bicycle and pedestrian safety
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6266
  Relating to updating creditor/debtor personal property exemptions
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6301
  Relating to group fishing permits
  
  
• Engrossed Senate Bill No. 6316
  Relating to electric personal assistive mobility devices
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6342
  Relating to authorizing the simplified sales and use tax administration act
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6364
  Relating to the recommendations of the joint legislative task force on mobile / manufactured home alteration and repair
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6379
  Relating to transferring service credit and contributions into the Washington State Patrol retirement system by members who served as commercial vehicle enforcement officers and who became commissioned officers in the Washington State Patrol after July 1,
  2000, and prior to June 30, 2001
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6416
  Relating to allowing public utility districts to define the eligible group of low-income citizens to whom they may provide services at reduced rates
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6417
  Relating to the filing of wills in superior court
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6426
  Relating to use of employer-granted leave to care for family members with serious medical conditions
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6461
  Relating to positive drug /alcohol test results of commercial motor vehicle operators
  
  
• Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill No. 6464
  Relating to city transportation authority
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6481
  Relating to regulating insurance for rental vehicles
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6508
  Relating to registering pesticides
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6515
  Relating to clarifying the uses of the school district capital projects fund to include the costs of implementing technology facilities plans
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6530
  Relating to salvage vehicles
  
  
• Engrossed Senate Bill No. 6630
  Relating to certification of electricians
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6635
  Relating to a notice and appeal process for animal control authorities
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6658
  Relating to clarifying the types of energy conservation projects a public utility may assist its customers in financing
  
  
• Senate Bill No. 6698
  Relating to exempting reflexologists from regulation as massage practitioners
  
  
• Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill No. 6703
  Relating to agricultural liens
  
  
• Substitute Senate Bill No. 6748
  Relating to procedures for vehicle registration transfers and impound

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