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                                 SENATE BILL 6414

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

 

By Senators Bailey, Rinehart, Murray, Pelz and Skratek

 

Read first time .  Referred to Committee on Education.Requiring the number of votes needed to pass excess levies for school bonds to be forty percent of the number of voters casting votes on a single school district general election issue or candidacy.


     AN ACT Relating to validation requirements for school district elections; and amending RCW 84.52.056.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

     Sec. 1.  RCW 84.52.056 and 1973 1st ex.s. c 195 s 104 are each amended to read as follows:

     Any municipal corporation otherwise authorized by law to issue general obligation bonds for capital purposes may, at an election duly held after giving notice thereof as required by law, authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds for capital purposes only, which shall not include the replacement of equipment, and provide for the payment of the principal and interest of such bonds by annual levies in excess of the tax limitations contained in RCW 84.52.050 to 84.52.056, inclusive and RCW 84.52.043.  Such an election shall not be held oftener than twice a calendar year, and the proposition to issue any such bonds and to exceed said tax limitation must receive the affirmative vote of a three-fifths majority of those voting on the proposition and the total number of persons voting at such election must constitute not less than forty percent of the voters in said municipal corporation who voted at the last preceding state-wide general ((state)) election:  PROVIDED, That for school district general obligation bonds, the total number of persons voting at such election shall constitute not less than forty percent of the largest number of voters casting votes on any single school district general election issue or candidacy.

     Any taxing district shall have the right by vote of its governing body to refund any general obligation bonds of said district issued for capital purposes only, and to provide for the interest thereon and amortization thereof by annual levies in excess of the tax limitations provided for in RCW 84.52.050 to 84.52.056, inclusive and RCW 84.52.043.