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HB 498                                                                                            
The Finance Committee has considered:                                                               
                                                                                                    
    HOUSE BILL NO. 498                                                                              
    "An Act expressing legislative intent regarding privately operated                              
    correctional facility space and services; relating to the                                       
    development and financing of privately operated correctional                                    
    facility space and services; authorizing the Department of                                      
    Corrections to enter into an agreement for the confinement and                                  
    care of prisoners in privately operated correctional facility space;                            
    and providing for an effective date."                                                           
                                                                                                    
and recommends it be replaced with:                                                                 
                                                                                                    
    CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 498(FIN)                                                                  
    "An Act expressing legislative intent regarding privately operated                              
    correctional facility space and services; relating to the                                       
    development and financing of privately operated correctional                                    
    facility space and services; authorizing the Department of                                      
    Corrections to enter into an agreement for the confinement and                                  
    care of prisoners in privately operated correctional facility space                             
    in the City of Whittier; giving notice of and approving the entry                               
    into and the issuance of certificates of participation for the                                  
    upgrade, expansion, and replacement of a certain correctional                                   
    facility in the City of Bethel; giving notice of and approving the                              
    entry into lease-financing agreements for that project; and                                     
    providing for an effective date."                                                               
                                                                                                    
The report was signed by Representative Mulder, Co-chair, with the                                  
following individual recommendations:                                                               
                                                                                                    
Do pass (4):  Bunde, Harris, Foster, Mulder                                                         
                                                                                                    
No recommendation (3):  Whitaker, Lancaster, Hudson                                                 
                                                                                                    
Amend (1):  Davies                                                                                  
                                                                                                    
The following fiscal note(s) apply to CSHB 498(FIN):                                                
                                                                                                    
3.  Fiscal, Dept. of Corrections                                                                    

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4.  Fiscal, Dept. of Revenue                                                                        
                                                                                                    
HB 498 was referred to the Rules Committee for placement on the                                     
calendar.