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House Amendment 8772

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend Senate File 58, as amended, passed, and
  1  2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 2, by inserting after line 5 the
  1  4 following:
  1  5    "Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  1.19  COMMON SYSTEM OF
  1  6 MEASUREMENT.
  1  7    The common system of units, weights, and
  1  8 measurements of the state shall be those established
  1  9 by the federal Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act
  1 10 of 1988.  All official procurements, grants, and other
  1 11 business-related activities shall utilize the metric
  1 12 system of measurement beginning July 1, 2002.  If
  1 13 conversion to the metric system of measurement
  1 14 pursuant to this section is determined not to be
  1 15 economically feasible by July 1, 2002, then prior to
  1 16 July 1, 2002, an alternative date shall be
  1 17 designated."
  1 18    #2.  Title page, line 1, by striking the word
  1 19 "state." and inserting the following:  "state, and a
  1 20 common system of measurement." 
  1 21 
  1 22 
  1 23                               
  1 24 TAYLOR of Linn 
  1 25 SF 58.215 77
  1 26 rn/jl/28

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