5104 AMH COUT HATF 137

SB 5104 - H AMD TO APPS COMM AMD (H-1851.1/23) 665

By Representative Couture

WITHDRAWN 04/11/2023

On page 2, after line 10 of the striking amendment, insert the following:

"(4)(a) In order to measure the effect of the shoreline survey on environmental protection outcomes, the department must coordinate with the administrative office of the courts, stakeholders, and local governments to develop a process for collecting data for civil and criminal actions against local governments, businesses, and residential property owners that are based in any way on evidence collected through the surveys conducted pursuant to section 2 of this act.

(b) For each calendar year subsequent to the date that the imaging survey is made publicly available, the department must utilize the process established in (a) of this subsection to collect data for civil and criminal actions against local governments, businesses, and residential property owners that are based in any way on evidence collected through the surveys conducted pursuant to section 2 of this act.

(c) The department must provide an annual report to the appropriate committees of the legislature, no later than June 30th of each year, that addresses whether civil actions have resulted in remedial action, monetary damages, or penalties assessed against the owners of parcels that border on Puget Sound, and whether the initiator of any such civil action was a government or non-government entity.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. A new section is added to chapter 2.56 RCW to read as follows:

The administrative office of the courts must amend its cover sheet for the filing of civil cases to include a means of designating a cause of action brought against the owner of a parcel that borders on Puget Sound and that is based in any way on evidence collected through the surveys conducted pursuant to section 2 of this act."

Renumber the remaining sections consecutively and correct any internal references accordingly.

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