FINAL BILL REPORT

                   SB 6307

                          C 155 L 00

                      Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Changing provisions relating to county roads that cross county boundaries.

Sponsors:  Senators Morton, Haugen, Honeyford, T. Sheldon, Gardner, Sellar and Hochstatter.

Senate Committee on Transportation

House Committee on Transportation

Background:  Washington law allows the board of any county to construct, maintain, and operate any county road which forms the boundary line between the county and another county in any other state if the road crosses and recrosses the county=s boundary.

The board of a county may spend funds from the county road fund to construct, repair, or maintain a portion of a road outside the county if the county road recrosses the boundary of the county and again enters the county.

Summary:  A county board may spend county road funds to operate a county road that crosses the boundary of the county.  The requirement that the road recross the boundary of the county is removed.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate 460

House970

Effective:June 8, 2000