H-0124.4/91 _______________________________________________
HOUSE BILL 1215
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Representatives H. Sommers, Peery, Brough, Cole, Holland, Valle, Miller, Neher, Phillips, Rust, Dorn, Rasmussen, Orr, Spanel, Vance, Paris, Forner, R. Johnson, Jacobsen, Nelson, Leonard and Anderson.
Read first time January 23, 1991. Referred to Committee on Education.
AN ACT Relating to excess school levies; amending RCW 84.52.053; and providing a contingent effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 84.52.053 and 1987 1st ex.s. c 2 s 103 are each amended to read as follows:
The limitations imposed by RCW 84.52.050 through 84.52.056, and 84.52.043 shall not prevent the levy of additional taxes by school districts, when authorized so to do by the electors of such school district in the manner and for the purposes and number of years allowable under Article VII, section 2(a) of the Constitution of this state, as amended by Amendment 79 and as thereafter amended, at a special or general election to be held in the year in which the levy is made or, in the case of a proposition authorizing two-year levies for maintenance and operation support of a school district or authorizing two-year through six-year levies to support the construction, modernization, or remodeling of school facilities, or both, at a special or general election to be held in the year in which the first annual levy is made: PROVIDED, That once additional tax levies have been authorized for maintenance and operation support of a school district for a two year period, no further additional tax levies for maintenance and operation support of the district for that period may be authorized: AND PROVIDED FURTHER, That if a school district submits a levy that is an increase over the previous levy and the increased proposition fails to be approved the school districts may levy an amount not greater than the amount levied in the preceding year, without resubmission of a proposition to the people.
A special election may be called and the time therefor fixed by the board of school directors, by giving notice thereof by publication in the manner provided by law for giving notices of general elections, at which special election the proposition authorizing such excess levy shall be submitted in such form as to enable the voters favoring the proposition to vote "yes" and those opposed thereto to vote "no".
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect on the effective date of H-77/91, if the proposed amendment to Article VII, section 2 of the state Constitution allowing school districts to continue existing excess levies is validly submitted to and is approved and ratified by the voters at a general election held in November 1991. If the proposed amendment is not so approved and ratified, this act is void in its entirety.