FINAL BILL REPORT
SB 5028
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Synopsis as Enacted
Brief Description: Transferring jurisdictional route transfer responsibilities from the transportation improvement board to the transportation commission.
Sponsors: Senator Haugen.
Senate Committee on Transportation
House Committee on Transportation
Background: The Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) distributes grant money to cities and counties for transportation projects. Under current law, the TIB also receives petitions from cities, counties, or the state requesting route jurisdiction transfers. A route jurisdiction transfer is the conversion of a state highway into a local road, or the conversion of a local road into a state highway. The TIB must evaluate each request according to specified criteria and forward annually any recommended route jurisdiction transfers to the Senate and House transportation committees.
Summary: The responsibility for reviewing route jurisdiction transfer requests is reassigned from the TIB to the Washington State Transportation Commission.
Votes on Final Passage:
Senate | 44 | 3 | |
House | 61 | 36 |
Effective: | July 26, 2009 |