CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2226
Chapter
161, Laws of 1994
53rd
Legislature
1994
Regular Session
SOLID WASTE
COLLECTION COMPANIES‑-RATE INCREASE NOTICE
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 6/9/94
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Passed by
the House February 8, 1994
Yeas 93 Nays
0
BRIAN EBERSOLE
Speaker
of the
House
of Representatives
Passed by
the Senate March 7, 1994
Yeas
42 Nays 2
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CERTIFICATE
I, Marilyn
Showalter, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of
Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL
2226 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the
dates hereon set forth.
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JOEL PRITCHARD
President
of the Senate
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MARILYN SHOWALTER
Chief
Clerk
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Approved
March 30, 1994 Place Style On Codes above, and
Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
March
30, 1994 - 1:11 p.m.
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MIKE LOWRY
Governor
of the State of Washington
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Secretary
of State
State
of Washington
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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2226
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Passed Legislature - 1994 Regular Session
State of Washington 53rd
Legislature 1994 Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/24/94.
Requiring
cities and towns to provide notice for rate increases for solid waste handling
services.
AN ACT Relating to
solid waste handling; adding a new section to chapter 35.21 RCW; adding a new
section to chapter 35A.21 RCW; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec.
1. The legislature finds
that local governments and private waste management companies have
significantly changed solid waste management services in an effort to preserve
landfill space and to avoid costly environmental cleanups of municipal landfills.
The legislature recognizes that these new services have enabled the state to
achieve one of the nation's highest recycling rates.
The legislature also
finds that the need to pay for the cleanup of past disposal practices and to
provide new recycling services has caused solid waste rates to increase
substantially. The legislature further finds that private solid waste
collection companies regulated by the utilities and transportation commission
are required to provide public notice but that city-managed solid waste
collection systems are not. The legislature declares it to be in the public
interest for city-managed systems to provide public notice of solid waste rate
increases.
NEW SECTION. Sec.
2. A new section is added
to chapter 35.21 RCW to read as follows:
(1) A city that
contracts for the collection of solid waste, or provides for the collection of
solid waste directly, shall notify the public of each proposed rate increase
for a solid waste handling service. The notice may be mailed to each affected
ratepayer or published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of
general circulation in the collection area. The notice shall be available to
affected ratepayers at least forty-five days prior to the proposed effective
date of the rate increase.
(2) For purposes of
this section, "solid waste handling" has the same meaning as provided
in RCW 70.95.030.
NEW SECTION. Sec.
3. A new section is added
to chapter 35A.21 RCW to read as follows:
(1) A city that
contracts for the collection of solid waste, or provides for the collection of
solid waste directly, shall notify the public of each proposed rate increase
for a solid waste handling service. The notice may be mailed to each affected
ratepayer or published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of
general circulation in the collection area. The notice shall be available to
affected ratepayers at least forty-five days prior to the proposed effective
date of the rate increase.
(2) For purposes of
this section, "solid waste handling" has the same meaning as provided
in RCW 70.95.030.
Passed
the House February 8, 1994.
Passed
the Senate March 7, 1994.
Approved by the Governor March 30, 1994.
Filed in Office of
Secretary of State March 30, 1994.