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                                          SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 1624

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                                                                            C 133 L 86

 

 

State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1986 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Peery, Ebersole, Taylor, Cole, Appelwick, P. King, Basich, Brough, Schoon and May)

 

 

Read first time 2/7/86 and passed to Committee on Rules.

 

 


AN ACT Relating to school levies; amending RCW 84.52.053 and 84.52.054; and providing an effective date.

 

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

 

        Sec. 1.  Section 3, chapter 325, Laws of 1977 ex. sess. and RCW 84.52.053 are each amended to read as follows:

          The limitations imposed by RCW 84.52.050 through 84.52.056, and RCW 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 set forth in Article VII, section 2(a) of the Constitution of this state, as amended by Amendment 59 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 levies for support of a school district, including but not limited to levies to support the construction, modernization, or remodeling of school facilities and levies for the maintenance and operation of schools, for a ((two year)) period exceeding one year, 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 ((the)) maintenance and operation support of a school district for a two year period, no further additional tax levies for ((the)) maintenance and operation support of the district for that period may be authorized.

          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".

 

        Sec. 2.  Section 84.52.054, chapter 15, Laws of 1961 as last amended by section 2, chapter 325, Laws of 1977 ex. sess. and RCW 84.52.054 are each amended to read as follows:

          The additional tax provided for in subparagraph (a) of the seventeenth amendment to the state Constitution as amended by Amendment 59 and as thereafter amended, and specifically authorized by RCW 84.52.052, as now or hereafter amended, and RCW 84.52.053 and 84.52.0531, shall be set forth in terms of dollars on the ballot of the proposition to be submitted to the voters, together with an estimate of the dollar rate of tax levy that will be required to produce the dollar amount; and the county assessor, in spreading this tax upon the rolls, shall determine the eventual dollar rate required to produce the amount of dollars so voted upon, regardless of the estimate of dollar rate of tax levy carried in said proposition.  In the case of a school district proposition for a ((two year)) particular period, the dollar amount and the corresponding estimate of the dollar rate of tax levy shall be set forth for each of the ((two)) years in that period.  The dollar amount for each ((of the two)) annual ((levies)) levy in the particular period may be equal or in different amounts.

 

          NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.                             This act shall take effect on December 15, 1986, if the proposed amendment to Article VII, section 2 of the state Constitution to change the time periods for school levies, House Joint Resolution No. 55, is validly submitted and is approved and ratified by the voters at a general election held in November, 1986.  If the proposed amendment is not so approved and ratified, this act shall be null and void in its entirety.                       Passed the House March 8, 1986.


Speaker of the House.

Passed the Senate March 5, 1986.

President of the Senate.